Definitions for pities

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pities pit·y

Spelling: [pit-ee]

IPA: /ˈpɪt i/

Pities is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in pities (eiipst).

Definitions for pities

noun

1. sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy:
2. a cause or reason for pity, sorrow, or regret:

Idioms

1. have / take pity, to show mercy or compassion.

adjective

1. Informal. motivated by a sense of pity or sympathy for others or for oneself:

verb (used with object)

1. to feel pity or compassion for; be sorry for; commiserate with.

verb (used without object)

1. to have compassion; feel pity.

Origin of pities

1175-1225; Middle English pite Old French pite, earlier pitet Latin pietāt- (stem of pietās) piety

Examples for pities

Decoud thought that it was a thousand pities the wretch had not died of fright.

There's good stuff in the lad, and it would be a thousand pities it should be corrupted.

She won't say 'yes' then simply because she pities me or because she doesn't realize what it means.

Naturally she pities me for not having this wonderful experience, too.

It's just because our friend there sees it that she pities me.

Women said she was a dear, and that it was a thousand pities she did not marry.

It was a thousand pities he ever came here and discovered that clay.

We are cut down with cruel axes and burned to death, and no one pities us.'

"Francis, it's a thousand pities that you and I can't change places," he said.

It's a thousand pities the captain couldn't have come back and enjoyed it with her.