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your | pity |

As a determiner your

is belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).

As a noun pity is

(uncountable) a feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

As a verb pity is

to feel pity for (someone or something).

As an interjection pity is

short form of what a pity.

your

English

(wikipedia your)

Determiner

  • Belonging to you; of you; related to you (singular; one owner).
    • Let's meet tomorrow at your convenience .
    Is this your cat?
  • Belonging to you; of you; related to you (plural; more owners).
  • A determiner that conveys familiarity and mutual knowledge of the modified noun.
    • Not your average Tom, Dick and Harry.
    Your Show of Shows
    Your World with Neil Cavuto
    Not Your Average Travel Guide
  • * Glanvill
    • Like your heroes of antiquity, he charges in iron.

    Usage notes

    * In US English, is frequent even in positions of stress. * The use of your instead of you're is a common mistake in English.

    See also

    (English personal pronouns)

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    pity

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pitty (obsolete)

    Noun

  • (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  • * Bible, Proverbs xix. 17
    • He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Hehas no more pity in him than a dog.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, p.5:
    • The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offendedis, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty .
  • (countable) Something regrettable.
    • It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
  • * Laurence Sterne
    • It was a thousand pities .
  • * Addison
    • What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!
  • (obsolete) piety
    • (Wyclif)

    Synonyms

    * (mercy) ruth * (something regrettable) shame

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To feel pity for (someone or something).
  • * Bible, Psalms ciii. 13
    • Like as a father pitieth' his children, so the Lord ' pitieth them that fear him.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.11:
    • She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.
  • * Book of Common Prayer
    • It pitieth them to see her in the dust.

    Interjection

  • Short form of what a pity.

    • Synonyms

    * shame, what a pity, what a shame

    Derived terms

    * piteous * pitiable * pitiful * self-pity * what a pity ----