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pity
 
Noun pity has 3 senses
  1. commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos - a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
    --1 is a kind of sympathy, fellow feeling
    Derived form: verb pity1
  2. pity, shame - an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
    --2 is a kind of misfortune, bad luck
  3. compassion, pity - the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
    --3 is a kind of mercifulness, mercy
    Derived form: verb pity1
Verb pity has 1 sense
  1. feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with - share the suffering of
    --1 is one way to grieve, sorrow
    Derived forms: noun pity3, noun pity1
    Sample sentence:
    Sam cannot pity Sue
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