| 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 |
| Main Entry: | pitying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | feeling pity |
Synonyms: |
all heart, commiserative, compassionate, condolatory, condoling, responsive, sensitive, soft, softhearted, supportive, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, thoughtful, understanding |
| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity); 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; 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); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
-adjectives
pitying; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched., merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; weak.
-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 |
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| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
Synonyms: |
ache, agonize, be in pain, feel for, pity, suffer, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
Synonyms: |
ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, feel for, have mercy, pity, share sorrow, sympathize |
Antonyms: |
be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
Synonyms: |
all heart, being big, benevolent, bleeding heart, charitable, commiserative, forbearing, going easy on, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, living with, merciful, old softie, piteous, pitying, responsive, soft shell, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
| Main Entry: | humane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, compassionate |
Synonyms: |
accommodating, altruistic, amiable, approachable, benevolent, benign, benignant, broad-minded, charitable, clement, considerate, cordial, democratic, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, helpful, human, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, natural, obliging, open-minded, philanthropic, pitying, righteous, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, warmhearted |
| Notes: | a human is a person while being humane means characterized by kindness, mercy, or compassion |
Antonyms: |
cruel, fierce, inhumane, merciless, uncivilized, uncompassionate, unkind, unsympathetic, violent |
| Main Entry: | merciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, sparing |
Synonyms: |
all heart, beneficent, benign, benignant, bleeding heart, charitable, clement, compassionate, condoning, easygoing, feeling, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, gracious, heart in right place, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindly, lenient, liberal, mild, pardoning, pitiful, pitying, soft*, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant |
Antonyms: |
cruel, merciless, unforgiving, unkind, unmerciful |
| Main Entry: | soft |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compassionate |
Synonyms: |
affectionate, amiable, benign, courteous, easy, easy-going, effortless, gentle, gracious, indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, lenient, liberal, manageable, overindulgent, permissive, pitying, sensitive, sentimental, simple, spineless, sympathetic, tender, tender-hearted, undemanding, weak |
Antonyms: |
callous, severe, stern, strict, uncompassionate |
| Main Entry: | spare |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forgive; have mercy upon |
Synonyms: |
absolve, bail out, be lenient, be merciful, discharge, dispense, excuse, exempt, forbear, get off the hook, get out of hock, give a break, give quarter to, go easy on, leave, let go, let off, pardon, pity, privilege from, pull out of the fire, refrain from, release, relent, relieve from, save bacon, save from, save neck, spring |