pity
1. pity \'pit-e-\ n [ME pite, fr. OF pite`, fr. L pietat-, pietas piety,
p]ity, fr. pius pious 1a: sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed,
or unhappy : COM PASSION 1b: capacity to feel pity 2: something to be
regretted SYMPATHY: PITY implies tender or sometimes slightly contemptuous
sorrow for one in misery or distress; COMPASSION implies pity coupled with
an urgent desire to aid or to spare; COMMISERATION suggests pity expressed
outwardly in exclamations, tears, words of comfort; RUTH implies pity
coming from a change of heart or a relenting; CONDOLENCE applies chiefly to
formal expression of grief to one who has suffered loss; SYMPATHY implies a
power to enter into another's emotional experiences of any sort SYN syn
COMPASSION, COMMISERATION, RUTH, CONDOLENCE,
2. pity vt : to feel pity for to feel pity