Crossword-Solution: PITY 4 letters, 164 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Pity	n.	Piety.
Pity	n.	A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
Pity	n.	A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
Pity	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.
Pity	v. t.	To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
Pity	v. i.	To be compassionate; to show pity.

We have 164 clues for the answer “PITY”

Clue	Answers
"'Tis a ___!"	1 answer
"A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher	1 answer
"And never a saint took ___ . . . "	1 answer
"But yet the ___ of it, Iago!"—Othello.	1 answer
"For ___ runneth soon in gentle hearts": Chaucer	1 answer
"I ___ the fool . . ." (Mr. T catchphrase)	1 answer
"I ___ the fool"	1 answer
"It's a ___" (too bad)	1 answer
"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of __": "King Richard III"	1 answer
"The scavenger of misery," per Shaw	1 answer
"Town Without ___" (Gene Pitney hit)	1 answer
"Town Without ___," 1961 film	1 answer
"What a ___!" ("Too bad!")	1 answer
"___ ever healeth envy": F. Bacon	1 answer
"___ is for the living, Envy is for the dead": Mark Twain	1 answer
"___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche	1 answer
A matter of regret	1 answer
Ache for, in a way	1 answer
Cause for regret.	1 answer
Cause for sorrow.	1 answer
Cause of regret.	1 answer
Compassionate feeling	1 answer
Condescending sympathy	1 answer
Drowning Pool song we feel sorry for?	1 answer
Emotion evoked by pathos	1 answer
Feel sad for	1 answer
Feeling for the unfortunate	1 answer
Feeling toward the unfortunate	1 answer
Hard-hearted one's lack	1 answer
I don't want your ___	1 answer
It may be "aw"-inspiring	1 answer
Matter of regret	1 answer
Mr. T's verb	1 answer
Response to misfortune	1 answer
Self-indulgent sulk*	1 answer
Show sympthy toward	1 answer
Sorrowful comment	1 answer
Sympathetic compassion	1 answer
Sympathetic feeling	1 answer
Sympathetic sorrow	1 answer
Terrible shame	1 answer
The Sorrow and the ___	1 answer
Understanding feeling	1 answer
Unfortunate circumstance	1 answer
Unfortunate development	1 answer
Weezer "This is Such a ___"	1 answer
What Simon Legree lacked.	1 answer
What the hardhearted lack	1 answer
Wistful comment, after "a"	1 answer
Feel compassion (for)	2 answers

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TAEER

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with PITY (5)

Standing at the open doorway, Long he looked at Hiawatha, Looked with pity and compassion On his wasted form and features, And, in accents like the sighing Of the South-Wind in the tree-tops, Said he, “O my Hiawatha! All your prayers are heard in heaven, For you pray not like the others; Not for greater skill in hunting, Not for greater craft in fishing, Not for triumph in the battle, Nor renown among the warriors, But for profit of the people, For advantage of the nations.

The Song Of Hiawatha Henry W. Longfellow 1991

She had experimented even with the rank buffalo-pea, and she could not see a fine bronze cluster of them without shaking her head and murmuring, “What a pity!” When there was nothing more to preserve, she began to pickle.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

His first feeling now was one of pity for the untimely fate of these gentle ewes and their unborn lambs.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Conducted to the spot they pity at first the blind beggar and his daughter, but on learning his name they are horror-striken and order him to quit the land.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

But on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

Quotes with PITY (3)

The human mind is not a dignified organ, and I do not see how we can exercise it sincerely except through eclecticism. And the only advice I would offer my fellow eclectics is: "Do not be proud of your inconsistency. It is a pity, it is a pity that we should be equipped like this. It is a pity that Man cannot be at the same time impressive and truthful.

E.M. Forster Aspects of the Novel

The knowing ones must have pity on the ignorant. One who knows is willing to give up his body even for an ant, because he knows that the body is nothing.

Swami Vivekananda

It was a pity that people did not risk enough to speak out in behalf of one another's happiness and their own.

Louis Zukofsky Collected Fiction

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Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYM, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 110 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).