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alas - aw - bless - compassion - crybaby - feel bad - feel sorry - have mercy - have mercy upon - merciless - mercilessly - pathetic - pathetically - pathos - pitiable - pitiably - pitiful - pitifully - pity party - pitying - ruth - sob story - unmerciful - woe is me. Spanish:
pity. verb [ T ] uk / ˈpɪt.i/ us / ˈpɪt̬.i/ C2. to feel sadness or sympathy for someone's unhappiness or bad situation. tener lástima de, compadecerse de. I pity anyone who's never been in love. Me compadezco de quienes nunca se han enamorado. He's deeply unhappy, and more to be pitied than criticized.
Pity is a noun or verb that means feeling sadness or sympathy for someone else's unhappiness or bad situation. Learn how to use pity in different contexts, see examples and synonyms, and compare with irony.
noun. uk / ˈpɪt.i / us / ˈpɪt̬.i / Add to word list. B2 [ U ] a feeling of sadness or sympathy for someone else's unhappiness or difficult situation: The girl stood gazing in/with pity at the old lion in the cage. She agreed to go out with him more out of pity than anything. These people don't want pity, they want practical help. Ver también.
1 piedad f , compasión f. → to feel (no) pity for sb (no) sentir compasión por algn. → have pity on us ten piedad de nosotros. → to move sb to pity mover a algn a compasión, dar lástima a algn. → I did it out of pity for him se lo hice por compasión. → for pity's sake! ¡por piedad!, (less seriously) ¡por el amor de Dios!
noun. sympathy or sorrow felt for the sufferings of another. have pity on or take pity on. to have sympathy or show mercy for. something that causes regret or pity. an unfortunate chance. what a pity you can't come. more's the pity. it is highly regrettable (that) verb. tr to feel pity for. Discover More. Derived Forms. ˈpitying, adjective.
1. piedad f ⧫ compasión f. to feel (no) pity for sb (no) sentir compasión por algn. have pity on us ten piedad de nosotros. to move sb to pity mover a algn a compasión ⧫ dar lástima a algn. I did it out of pity for him se lo hice por compasión. for pity’s sake! ¡por piedad!; (less seriously) ¡por el amor de Dios!
