This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

n. Sympathy and sorrow aroused by the misfortune or suffering of another.

n. A matter of regret: It's a pity she can't attend the reception.

v. To feel pity for.

verb-intransitive. To feel pity.

idiom. have To show compassion for.

n. A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

n. Something regrettable.

v. To feel pity for (someone or something).

interjection. Short form of what a pity.

n. Piety.

n. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

n. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.

v. 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.

v. To move to pity; -- used impersonally.

verb-intransitive. To be compassionate; to show pity.

n. Sympathetic sorrow for the suffering with another; a feeling which inspires one to relieve the suffering of another.

n. An appeal for pity.

n. A cause, matter, or source, of regret or grief; a thing to be regretted: as, it is a pity you lost it; it is a thousand pities that it should be so.

n. Synonyms pity, Compassion, Commiseration, Sympathy, condolence. Pity is the only one of these words that allows even a tinge of contempt; pity and Compassion come from one who is felt to be so far superior. Sympathy, on the other hand, puts the sufferer and the one sympathizing with him upon an equality by their fellow-feeling. Compassion does not keep so near its derivation; it is deep tenderness of feeling for one who is suffering. Sympathy is equal to compassion in its expression of tenderness. Commiseration is, by derivation, sharing another's misery; condolence is sharing another's grief. Commiseration may and condolence must stand for the communication to another of one's feelings of sorrow for his case. It is some comfort of receive commiseration or condolence; it gives one strength to receive sympathy from a loving heart; it is irksome to need compassion; it galls us to be pitied. Sympathy does not necessarily imply more than kinship of feeling. See also the quotations under condolence.

To excite pity in; fill with pity or compassion: used impersonally.

To feel pity or compassion for; compassionate; commiserate: as, to pity the blind or their misfortune; to pity the oppressed.

Synonyms To sympathize with, feel for. See pity, n.

To be compassionate; exercise pity.

n. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

n. an unfortunate development

n. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

v. share the suffering of

"And those wretched remains of strength and youth, those bruised and battered men, looked with pity, yes, _with pity_, at our train."

pitied    pities    pitying   

fellow-feeling    sympathy    misfortune    bad luck    mercifulness    mercy   

to have pity upon   

pitied   

pitied    pitying    piteous    pitiful    pitiable    what a pity    self-pity   

sympathy    fellow-suffering    sympathy    condolence    commiseration    compassion    mercy    fellow-feeling    piety    compassionate    commiserate   

City    Kitty    bitty    chitty    city    committee    ditty    gritty    itty    itty-bitty   

compassion    tenderness    sorrow    shame    admiration    sadness    indignation    awe    contempt    pride