Pity vs. Commiserate

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

(countable) Something regrettable.

Example: ‘It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.’;

(obsolete) Piety.

(transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).

To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

Short form of what a pity.

Piety.

A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.

Example: ‘He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.’; ‘He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog.’;

A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.

Example: ‘What pity is itThat we can die but once to serve our country!’;

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.

Example: ‘Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him.’;

To move to pity; - used impersonally.

Example: ‘It pitieth them to see her in the dust.’;

To be compassionate; to show pity.

Example: ‘I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy.’;

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others;

Example: ‘the blind are too often objects of pity’;

an unfortunate development;

Example: ‘it's a pity he couldn't do it’;

the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

share the suffering of

Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy - the word deriving from the Latin pietās (etymon also of piety). Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself.

commiserating, pitying, lamentful

(transitive) To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).

To sympathize; condole.

(ambitransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.

To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.

Example: ‘Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weightOf age, disease, or want, commiserate.’; ‘We should commiserate our mutual ignorance.’;

to feel or express sympathy or compassion

express or feel sympathy or pity; sympathize

Example: ‘she went over to commiserate with Rose on her unfortunate circumstances’;

feel or express pity for (someone)

Example: ‘she did not exult in her rival's fall, but, on the contrary, commiserated her’;