Clues for the word "PITY"
We've had 94 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 342 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on July 20, 2026.
Definition of pity
- n. - Piety.
- n. - A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
- n. - A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
- 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.
- v. t. - To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
- v. i. - To be compassionate; to show pity.
Referring Clues
- Feeling for the unfortunate
- Ruefulness
- Feel sorry for
- Wistful comment, after "a"
- Bleed for
- Compassion
- "What a shame"
- Terrible shame
- Unfortunate development
- "___ makes suffering contagious": Nietzsche
- "Town Without ___" (Gene Pitney hit)
- Crying shame
- Sympathetic sorrow
- "A woman's ___ often opens the door to love": Henry Ward Beecher
- Commiserate with
- Feel compassion for
- Emotion evoked by pathos
- Feel for
- "That's rough"
- Feel bad for
- Sympathetic feeling
- Mr. T's verb
- Feeling toward the unfortunate
- Opposite of schadenfreude
- Be moved by
- "The scavenger of misery," per Shaw
- Sorrowful comment
- "So sad"
- Unfortunate circumstance
- Sympathy
- Compassionate feeling
- "Too bad"
- "Too bad"
- See 8-Down
- Shame
- Condescending sympathy
- "No beast so fierce but knows some touch of ___": "King Richard III"
- It may be "aw"-inspiring
- "Tsk!"
- Commiseration
- "Such a shame"
- "Bummer"
- "I don't want your ___"
- Mercy
- "That's too bad"
- Regrettable situation
- Weep for
- "That's a shame"
- Be sorry for
- "That's a shame!"
- "What a ___!" ("Too bad!")
- "How unfortunate"
- Understanding feeling
- "The Sorrow and the ___"
- Show compassion for
- "I ___ the fool who..."
- Drowning Pool song we feel sorry for?
- Weezer "This is Such a ___"
- Sympathise with
- Cause for regret
- Ruth
- "Stop it!" Youngsters do show shame
- It's a shame when piety lacks heart
- Sympathy for the suffering of another
- Matter for regret
- Ruth's heartless devotion
- Feel sorrow for
- It is fitting amidst extremes of penury
- Town Without ___
- ___ is for the living, Envy is for the dead: Mark Twain
- Feel sympathy for
- Shame on Ruth
- Ruth unknown by mine
- See 29
- Feel sorry for yours, at the start, positioned behind mine
- Feel sorry for mine and yours at first
- Arrange for your head to be contending with Ruth
- Have compassion for
- Self-indulgent sulk*
- Feel sad for
- "Too bad" feeling
- Heartfelt feeling
- "I ___ the fool"
- "What a ___"
- "I ___ the fool ..." (Mr. T catchphrase)
- Hard-hearted one's lack
- "Alas!"
- ___ party
- See 35-Across
- Feeling of empathy
- Ache for, in a way
- "'Tis a ___"
- Sympathetic compassion
- "It's a shame, really!"
Last Seen In
- New York Times - July 20, 2026
- Your Life Choices - July 10, 2026
- Evening Standard Easy - May 20, 2026
- Mirror Daily - April 14, 2026
- New Zealand Herald - April 13, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - April 08, 2026
- Your Life Choices - March 21, 2026
- Mirror Daily - March 16, 2026
- Daily American - March 14, 2026
- Penny Dell Daily - March 11, 2026
- Evening Standard Quick - February 12, 2026
- Daily Quick - February 02, 2026
- Your Life Choices - December 28, 2025
- Mirror Daily - December 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 29, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - November 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - October 14, 2025
- New York Times - October 06, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - September 15, 2025
- Daily American - September 15, 2025
- New Zealand Herald - September 08, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - August 16, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - August 08, 2025
- Your Life Choices - July 17, 2025
- Mirror Daily - July 04, 2025
- Mindfood Daily - May 30, 2025
- Evening Standard Quick - May 23, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - May 03, 2025
- Daily American - May 02, 2025
- Daily Quick - April 24, 2025
- And in 312 more crossword puzzles...