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Pity

🔄 Synonyms of "Pity"

9 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
compassionateverb	Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).
pathosnoun	The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
compassionnoun	Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
shamenoun	An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
commiserationnoun	The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.
feel forverb	(idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with.
condole withverb	share the suffering of
sympathize withverb	share the suffering of
ruthnoun	(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Pity"

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Word	Definition
ruthnoun	(archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
shamenoun	An uncomfortable or painful feeling due to recognition or consciousness of one's own impropriety or dishonor, or something being exposed that should have been kept private.
commiserationnoun	The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.
compassionateverb	Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).
feel forverb	(idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with.
compassionnoun	Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.
pathosnoun	The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality.
condole withverb	share the suffering of
sympathize withverb	share the suffering of
pathetic	Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
pitiful	So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
miserynoun	Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
regrettable	Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.
lamentable	Causing sorrow, distress or regret; deplorable, pitiful or distressing.
regrettingnoun	The act by which something is regretted.
woenoun	Great sadness or distress; a misfortune causing such sadness.
regretnoun	Emotional pain on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing.
sadnessnoun	(uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
sadnoun	Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”). [The letter ص in the Arabic script.]
sorrownoun	(uncountable) unhappiness, woe