Synonym: compassion, mercy, sorrow, sympathy. Similar words: serendipity, pit, spit, pitch, spite, capita, pitcher, jupiter. Meaning: ['pɪtɪ] n. 1. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others 2. an unfortunate development 3. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. v. share the suffering of.
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31 What a pity that his career was left to flounder.
32 I felt great pity for the woman whose baby died.
33 It's a pity our trips to New York don't coincide.
34 It's a pity that you have to go so soon.
35 A feeling of pity for David was uppermost in her mind.
36 Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
37 He regarded the mortally wounded man with no pity in his heart.
38 I took pity on her and lent her the money.
39 She had to steel her heart against pity.
40 Do I sound envious? I pity them, actually.
41 It's a pity Christmas has become so commercialized.
42 Pity the poor sailors at sea in this storm!
43 It's a pity you couldn't come.
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44 I pity his ,long-suffering 'wife.
45 It would be a pity to spoil the surprise.
46 It'sa pity you shaved your moustache off.
47 It's a pity Peter's so gone on Jane.
48 He looked so dispirited I took pity on him.
49 We begged him to have pity on us.
50 That would be rather a pity, wouldn't it?
51 Pity stirred in her heart.
52 His heart ached with pity for her.
53 The thugs showed no pity.
54 I sincerely pity these unfortunate beings.
55 What a pity that she didn't tell me earlier.
56 I pity him from the bottom of my heart.
57 Her irritation melted into pity.
58 One should avoid showing too much pity.
59 She was full of pity for him.
60 I don't know whether to hate or pity him.