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| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel sorry for; spare |
| Synonyms: | ache*, be sorry for, be sympathetic, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole, console, feel for, feel with, forgive, give quarter, grant amnesty, grieve with, have compassion, have mercy on, identify with, lament with, pardon, put out of one's misery, relent, reprieve, show forgiveness, show sympathy, solace, soothe, sympathize, take pity on, understand, weep for |
| Antonyms: | disdain, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindness, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth, condolement, kindliness, lenity |
| Antonyms: | disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sad situation |
| Synonyms: | bad luck, catastrophe, crime, crisis, disaster, mischance, misfortune, mishap, regret, shame, sin, crying shame |
| Antonyms: | advantage, blessing, good fortune |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity) [more]; charity, ruth, long- suffering., melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenititentiae., sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
-verbs
pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; commiserate, compassionate; condole [more]; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of., forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery., raise pity, excite pity; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm., ask for mercy; supplicate (request) [more]; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
-adjectives
-phrases
one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
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| Antonyms: | pitilessness |
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
| Synonyms: | ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, pity, sympathize, feel for, have mercy, share sorrow |
| Antonyms: | be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, pity, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, shame, sympathy, penitency, punctiliousness, second thoughts, stab of conscience |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | consolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relief, comfort |
| Synonyms: | cheer, comfort, compassion, ease, easement, encouragement, fellow feeling, help, pity, solace, succor, support, sympathy, alleviation, assuagement, lenity |
| Notes: | solace is a form of comfort given to one who is in sorrow or distress; consolation is an act of offering such comfort, or the result of such comfort having been provided |
| Antonyms: | agitation, annoyance, antagonism, discouragement, disturbance, trouble, upset |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, communion, compassion, comprehension, concord, insight, pity, rapport, recognition, soul, sympathy, warmth, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, community of interests, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, picking up on, responsiveness |
| Antonyms: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | remorse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty or bad conscience |
| Synonyms: | anguish, attrition, compassion, compunction, contrition, grief, guilt, penance, penitence, pity, regret, repentance, rue, shame, sorrow, contriteness, pangs of conscience, penitency, remorsefulness, ruefulness, self-reproach |
| Antonyms: | happiness, satisfaction, good conscience, remorselessness |
| Main Entry: | solace |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | comfort, peace |
| Synonyms: | condolence, consolation, pity, relief, alleviation, assuagement, condolement |
| Antonyms: | discord, disharmony |
| Main Entry: | sympathize |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel for, be compassionate |
| Synonyms: | ache, agree, appreciate, be in accord, be in sympathy, be kind to, be there for, be understanding, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, compassionate, comprehend, condole, emphathize, feel heart go out to, go along with, grieve with, have compassion, identify with, love, offer consolation, pick up on, pity, relate to*, share another's sorrow, show kindliness, show mercy, show tenderness, side with*, tune in, understand |
| Antonyms: | disapprove, disregard, ignore |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | commiseration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consolation |
| Synonyms: | compassion, condolence, pity, sympathy |
| Main Entry: | condole |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sympathize |
| Synonyms: | comfort, commiserate, console, pity, soothe |
| Main Entry: | feel sorry for |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel compassion for |
| Synonyms: | bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole with, console, empathize with, express sympathy, feel for, grieve with, have mercy on, lament for, open one's heart, pity, sympathize, sympathize with |
| Main Entry: | heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's emotions |
| Synonyms: | affection, benevolence, character, compassion, concern, disposition, feeling, gusto, humanity, inclination, love, nature, pity, relish, response, sensitivity, sentiment, soul, sympathy, temperament, tenderness, understanding, zest, palate |
| Antonyms: | head |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | assist, compassion, compensation, consolation, encouragement, hand, lift, pity, relief, solace, succor, support, sympathy, alleviation, secours |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | spare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forgive; have mercy upon |
| Synonyms: | absolve, bail out, discharge, dispense, excuse, exempt, forbear, leave, let off*, pardon, pity, release, relent, spring, be lenient, be merciful, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, give quarter to, go easy on, let go, privilege from, pull out of the fire, refrain from, relieve from, save bacon, save from, save neck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, pity, suffer, sympathize, be in pain, feel for |
| Main Entry: | feeling |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a state of mind, often strong |
| Synonyms: | action, affection, appreciation, ardor, behavior, capacity, compassion, concern, cultivation, culture, delicacy, discernment, discrimination, emotion, empathy, faculty, fervor, fondness, heat, imagination, impression, intelligence, intensity, intuition, judgment, keenness, passion, pathos, pity, reaction, refinement, sensibility, sensitivity, sentiment, sentimentality, spirit, sympathy, taste, tenderness, understanding, warmth, palpability, sharpness, tangibility |
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