Thesaurus: pity

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1. n. Piety.
2. n. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; feeling">fellow-feeling; commiseration.
3. n. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
4. v. t. 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.
5. v. t. To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
6. v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity.
7. n. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
8. n. an unfortunate development
9. n. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
10. v. share the suffering of
11. To be compassionate; to show pity.I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. Jer. xiii. 14.