Definition of 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. t. - 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. t. - To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
• v. i. - To be compassionate; to show pity.