Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Pity

Nouns
  • pity, compassion, commiseration
  • bowels, of compassion
  • sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency
  • leniency etc. (lenity) Lenity
  • charity, ruth, long-suffering. melting mood
  • quarter, grace
  • advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
Verbs
  • pity
  • have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.
  • commiserate, compassionate
  • condole etc. Condolence
  • sympathize
  • feel for, be sorry for, yearn for
  • weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery. raise pity, excite pity etc. n.
  • touch, soften
  • melt, melt the heart
  • propitiate, disarm. ask for mercy etc. v.
  • supplicate etc. (request) Request
  • cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel
  • deprecate.
Adjectives
  • pitying etc. v.
  • pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. merciful, clement, ruthful
  • humane
  • humanitarian etc. (philanthropic) Philanthropy
  • tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken
  • soft, soft hearted
  • unhardened
  • lenient etc. Lenity
  • exorable, forbearing
  • melting etc. v.
  • weak.
Int
  • for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!
Phrases
  • one's heart bleeding for
  • a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind