pity – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
pity
v.
have mercy on, feel compassion for, commiserate with, sympathize with
n.
mercy, compassion; sympathy, commiseration
Pity
Pity means feeling for others, particularly feelings of
sadness or
sorrow, and is used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "
sympathy" and "
empathy". Through insincere usage, it can also have a more unsympathetic connotation of feelings of superiority or condescension.
pity
Noun
1. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
(synonym) commiseration, ruth, pathos
(hypernym) sympathy, fellow feeling
(derivation) feel for, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with
2. an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
(synonym) shame
(hypernym) misfortune, bad luck
3. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
(synonym) compassion
(hypernym) mercifulness, mercy
(derivation) feel for, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with
Verb
1. share the suffering of
(synonym) feel for, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with
(hypernym) grieve, sorrow
(hyponym) commiserate, sympathize, sympathise
(derivation) compassion
pity
v.
soucítit s kým
n.
soucit, slitování; škoda, smůla
pity
Czas.
współczuć
Rzecz.
litość; współczucie; szkoda (że)
