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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolement, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindliness, kindness, lenity, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth |
| Antonyms: | disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | feel sorry for; spare |
| Synonyms: | ache*, be sorry for, be sympathetic, bleed for, comfort, commiserate, condole, console, feel for, feel with, forgive, give quarter, grant amnesty, grieve with, have compassion, have mercy on, identify with, lament with, pardon, put out of one's misery, relent, reprieve, show forgiveness, show sympathy, solace, soothe, sympathize, take pity on, understand, weep for |
| Antonyms: | disdain, scorn |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Concept: | Pity. |
| Category: | 2. Special Sympathetic Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency (lenity); charity, ruth, long- suffering., melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenititentiae., sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.
-verbs
pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of., forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de grace, put out of one's misery., raise pity, excite pity; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm., ask for mercy; supplicate (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.
-adjectives
pitying; pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched., merciful, clement, ruthful; humane; humanitarian (philanthropic); tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken; soft, soft hearted; unhardened; lenient; exorable, forbearing; melting; weak.
-phrases
one's heart bleeding for; haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco [Vergil]; "a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind" [Garrick]; onor di bocca assai giova e poco
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| Antonyms: | pitilessness |
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| Main Entry: | bleed |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | grieve |
| Synonyms: | ache, agonize, be in pain, feel for, pity, suffer, sympathize |
| Main Entry: | comfort |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | aid, help |
| Synonyms: | alleviation, assist, compassion, compensation, consolation, encouragement, hand, lift, pity, relief, secours, solace, succor, support, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | hindrance, hurt, injury, torment, torture |
| Main Entry: | commiserate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | listen to woes of another |
| Synonyms: | ache, compassionate, condole, console, feel, feel for, have mercy, pity, share sorrow, sympathize |
| Antonyms: | be indifferent, turn away |
| Main Entry: | compunction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | regret, sorrow |
| Synonyms: | attrition, conscience, contrition, misgiving, penitence, penitency, pity, punctiliousness, qualm, reluctance, remorse, repentance, rue, ruth, second thoughts, shame, stab of conscience, sympathy |
| Antonyms: | defiance, meanness, no remorse |
| Main Entry: | consolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | relief, comfort |
| Synonyms: | alleviation, assuagement, cheer, comfort, compassion, ease, easement, encouragement, fellow feeling, help, lenity, pity, solace, succor, support, sympathy |
| Notes: | solace is a form of comfort given to one who is in sorrow or distress; consolation is an act of offering such comfort, or the result of such comfort having been provided |
| Antonyms: | agitation, annoyance, antagonism, discouragement, disturbance, trouble, upset |
| Main Entry: | empathy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | affinity, appreciation, being on same wavelength, being there for someone, communion, community of interests, compassion, comprehension, concord, cottoning to, good vibrations, hitting it off, insight, picking up on, pity, rapport, recognition, responsiveness, soul, sympathy, warmth |
| Notes: | empathy denotes a deep emotional understanding of another's feelings or problems, while sympathy is more general and can apply to small annoyances or setbacks sympathy means the stimulation in a person of feelings that are similar in kind to those that affect another person; empathy means a mental or affective projection into the feelings or state of mind of another person |
| Antonyms: | apathy, misunderstanding, unfeelingness |
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