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| Main Entry: | |
| 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
| Main Entry: | rue |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | regret |
| Synonyms: | apologize, be sorry for, cry over, deplore, feel remorse, feel sorry, grieve, kick oneself, lament, mourn, weep over |
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| Main Entry: | regret |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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contrite, homesick, lamentable, languorous, much to be regretted, oikotropic, regretful, regrettable, regretted, regretting
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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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| Concept: | Regret. |
| Category: | 1. Passive Affections |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
regret, repining; homesickness, nostalgia; maldu pays, maladie; lamentation; penitence., bitterness, heartburning., laudator temporis acti (discontent).
-verbs
regret, deplore; bewail (lament); repine, cast a longing lingering look behind; rue, rue the day; repent; infandum renovare dolorem., prey on the mind, weigh on the mind, have a weight on the mind; leave an aching void.
-adjectives
regretting; regretful; homesick., regretted; much to be regretted, regrettable; lamentable (bad).
-phrases
'tis pity, 'tis too true; "sig'd and look'd and sigh'd again" [Dryden].
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