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What (who) is pity - definition
SYMPATHETIC SORROW EVOKED BY THE SUFFERING OF OTHERS
Piteousness; Piteous
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pity
(pities, pitying, pitied)
1.
If you feel pity for someone, you feel very sorry for them.
He felt a sudden tender pity for her...
She knew that she was an object of pity among her friends.
N-UNCOUNT: oft N for n
see also self-pity
2.
If you pity someone, you feel very sorry for them.
I don't know whether to hate or pity him.
VERB: V n
3.
If you say that it is a pity that something is the case, you mean that you feel disappointment or regret about it.
It is a great pity that all pupils in the city cannot have the same chances...
It seemed a pity to let it all go to waste.
N-SING: a N, oft it v-link N that/to-inf [feelings]
4.
If someone shows pity, they do not harm or punish someone they have power over.
One should avoid showing too much pity...
N-UNCOUNT
5.
If you take pity on someone, you feel sorry for them and help them.
No woman had ever felt the need to take pity on him before.
PHRASE: V inflects
Pity
·noun Piety.
II. Pity ·vi To be compassionate; to show pity.
III. Pity ·vt To move to pity;
- used impersonally.
IV. Pity ·noun A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
V. Pity ·noun A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
VI. Pity ·vt To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to Compassionate; to Commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.
pity
I. n.
1.
Compassion, commiseration, mercy, sympathy, fellow-feeling, fellow-suffering, condolence, bowels of compassion, melting mood.
2.
Ground of pity, cause of grief, subject of pity.
II. v. a.
Commiserate, compassionate, sympathize with, feel for, have pity or compassion for, feel sorry for, condole with.
Wikipedia
Pity
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Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy – the word deriving from the Latin pietas (etymon also of piety). Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself.
Two different kinds of pity can be distinguished, "benevolent pity" and "contemptuous pity" (see Kimball), where, through insincere, pejorative usage, pity is used to connote feelings of superiority, condescension, or contempt.
Examples of use of pity
1. The original story is on self pity but this is not as much as on self pity rather it’s a story on self discovery.
2. Pity the Russian people, whose future looks increasingly bleak.
3. What a pity trains don‘t make train noises any more.
4. "It‘s a pity Boris isn‘t standing for leader," he commented.
5. The prince and the poor girl Pity Kate Middleton.