| pitiful | | |
| adj. | 1. pathetic, pitiable, pitiful | inspiring mixed contempt and pity.; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" |
| ~ contemptible | deserving of contempt or scorn. |
| adj. | 2. deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry | bad; unfortunate.; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" |
| ~ bad | having undesirable or negative qualities.; "a bad report card"; "his sloppy appearance made a bad impression"; "a bad little boy"; "clothes in bad shape"; "a bad cut"; "bad luck"; "the news was very bad"; "the reviews were bad"; "the pay is bad"; "it was a bad light for reading"; "the movie was a bad choice" |
| adj. | 3. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| asylum | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. asylum, refuge, sanctuary | a shelter from danger or hardship. |
| ~ harbor, harbour | a place of refuge and comfort and security. |
| ~ safehold | a refuge from attack. |
| ~ safe house | a house used as a hiding place or refuge by members of certain organizations. |
| ~ shelter | a structure that provides privacy and protection from danger. |
| n. (artifact) | 2. asylum, insane asylum, institution, mental home, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric hospital | a hospital for mentally incompetent or unbalanced person. |
| ~ booby hatch, crazy house, cuckoo's nest, funny farm, funny house, loony bin, madhouse, nut house, nuthouse, bedlam, sanatorium, snake pit | pejorative terms for an insane asylum. |
| ~ hospital, infirmary | a health facility where patients receive treatment. |
| charity | | |
| n. (group) | 1. charity | a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals). |
| ~ foundation | an institution supported by an endowment. |
| ~ philanthropic foundation | a foundation that provides funds for science or art or education or religion or relief from disease etc.. |
| ~ private foundation | a charity that does not receive a major part of its support from the public. |
| ~ public charity | a charity that is deemed to receive the major part of its support from the public (rather than from a small group of individuals). |
| n. (attribute) | 2. brotherly love, charity | a kindly and lenient attitude toward people. |
| ~ benevolence | an inclination to do kind or charitable acts. |
| ~ supernatural virtue, theological virtue | according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith, hope, and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues. |
| n. (act) | 3. charity | an activity or gift that benefits the public at large. |
| ~ giving, gift | the act of giving. |
| ~ handout | giving money or food or clothing to a needy person. |
| ~ zakat | the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship.; "the zakat is earmarked for the poor and disabled" |
| n. (plant) | 4. charity, greek valerian, jacob's ladder, polemonium caeruleum, polemonium van-bruntiae, polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae | pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers. |
| ~ polemonium | any plant of the genus Polemonium; most are low-growing often foul-smelling plants of temperate to Arctic regions. |
| n. (group) | 5. charity | an institution set up to provide help to the needy. |
| ~ institution, establishment | an organization founded and united for a specific purpose. |
| ~ community chest | a charity supported by individual subscriptions; defrays the demands on a community for social welfare. |
| ~ soup kitchen | a place where food is dispensed to the needy. |
| clemency | | |
| n. (state) | 1. clemency, mildness | good weather with comfortable temperatures. |
| ~ good weather | weather suitable for outdoor activities. |
| ~ balminess, softness | the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing.; "the day's heat faded into balminess"; "the climate had the softness of the south of France" |
| n. (act) | 2. clemency, mercifulness, mercy | leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" |
| ~ lenience, leniency | lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers. |
| ~ re-sentencing, commutation | (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law. |
| ~ free pardon, amnesty, pardon | the formal act of liberating someone. |
| ~ quarter | clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent.; "he surrendered but asked for quarter" |
| ~ reprieve, respite | the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment. |
| compassion | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. compassion, compassionateness | a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering. |
| ~ heartstrings | your deepest feelings of love and compassion.; "many adoption cases tug at the heartstrings" |
| ~ fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). |
| ~ tenderheartedness, tenderness | warm compassionate feelings. |
| ~ mercifulness, mercy | the feeling that motivates compassion. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. compassion, pity | the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. |
| ~ mercifulness, mercy | a disposition to be kind and forgiving.; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband" |
| indulgence | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. indulgence, self-indulgence | an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires. |
| ~ indiscipline, undiscipline | the trait of lacking discipline. |
| ~ luxury | something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. indulgence, lenience, leniency | a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone.; "too much indulgence spoils a child" |
| ~ permissiveness, tolerance | a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior. |
| ~ softness | a disposition to be lenient in judging others.; "softness is not something permitted of good leaders" |
| n. (act) | 3. humoring, indulgence, indulging, pampering | the act of indulging or gratifying a desire. |
| ~ intemperateness, self-indulgence, intemperance | excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence.; "the intemperance of their language" |
| ~ gratification | the act or an instance of satisfying. |
| ~ overindulgence, excess | excessive indulgence.; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" |
| ~ binge, orgy, splurge | any act of immoderate indulgence.; "an orgy of shopping"; "an emotional binge"; "a splurge of spending" |
| n. (act) | 4. craziness, folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery | foolish or senseless behavior. |
| ~ frolic, gambol, romp, caper, play | gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement.; "it was all done in play"; "their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly" |
| ~ meshugaas, mishegaas, mishegoss | (Yiddish) craziness; senseless behavior or activity. |
| ~ buffoonery, clowning, harlequinade, japery, prank, frivolity | acting like a clown or buffoon. |
| n. (act) | 5. indulgence | the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution.; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse" |
| ~ remission of sin, absolution, remittal, remission | the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance. |
| ~ church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church, roman catholic | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy. |
| kindness | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. kindness | the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic. |
| ~ generosity, generousness | the trait of being willing to give your money or time. |
| ~ benevolence | an inclination to do kind or charitable acts. |
| ~ loving-kindness | tender kindness motivated by a feeling of affection. |
| ~ considerateness, thoughtfulness, consideration | kind and considerate regard for others.; "he showed no consideration for her feelings" |
| ~ good, goodness | moral excellence or admirableness.; "there is much good to be found in people" |
| n. (attribute) | 2. forgivingness, kindness | tendency to be kind and forgiving. |
| ~ mercifulness, mercy | a disposition to be kind and forgiving.; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband" |
| n. (act) | 3. benignity, kindness | a kind act. |
| ~ action | something done (usually as opposed to something said).; "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
| ~ benefaction, benevolence | an act intending or showing kindness and good will. |
| ~ cupboard love | a show of affection motivated by selfishness. |
| ~ favor, favour | an act of gracious kindness. |
| ~ pardon, forgiveness | the act of excusing a mistake or offense. |
| ~ endearment | the act of showing affection. |
| ~ thoughtfulness, consideration | a considerate and thoughtful act. |
| mercy | | |
| n. (attribute) | 1. mercifulness, mercy | a disposition to be kind and forgiving.; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband" |
| ~ humaneness | the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals). |
| ~ compassion, pity | the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. |
| ~ forgivingness, kindness | tendency to be kind and forgiving. |
| ~ lenience, leniency, lenity, mildness | mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant. |
| n. (feeling) | 2. mercifulness, mercy | the feeling that motivates compassion. |
| ~ compassion, compassionateness | a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering. |
| ~ forgiveness | compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive. |
| n. (state) | 3. mercy | something for which to be thankful.; "it was a mercy we got out alive" |
| ~ boon, blessing | a desirable state.; "enjoy the blessings of peace"; "a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors" |
| n. (act) | 4. mercy | alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed.; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy" |
| ~ ministration, succor, succour, relief | assistance in time of difficulty.; "the contributions provided some relief for the victims" |
| pity | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. commiseration, pathos, pity, ruth | a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.; "the blind are too often objects of pity" |
| ~ fellow feeling, sympathy | sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish). |
| n. (event) | 2. pity, shame | an unfortunate development.; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" |
| ~ misfortune, bad luck | unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event. |
| v. (emotion) | 3. compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with | share the suffering of. |
| ~ grieve, sorrow | feel grief. |
| ~ commiserate, sympathise, sympathize | to feel or express sympathy or compassion. |
| ~ care | feel concern or interest.; "I really care about my work"; "I don't care" |
| pitiful | | |
| stagnate | | |
| v. (stative) | 1. stagnate | stand still.; "Industry will stagnate if we do not stimulate our economy" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| v. (stative) | 2. stagnate | cause to stagnate.; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters" |
| ~ change | undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature.; "She changed completely as she grew older"; "The weather changed last night" |
| ~ stagnate | cease to flow; stand without moving.; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries" |
| v. (stative) | 3. stagnate | cease to flow; stand without moving.; "Stagnating waters"; "blood stagnates in the capillaries" |
| ~ be | have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun).; "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" |
| ~ stagnate | cause to stagnate.; "There are marshes that stagnate the waters" |
| v. (social) | 4. idle, laze, slug, stagnate | be idle; exist in a changeless situation.; "The old man sat and stagnated on his porch"; "He slugged in bed all morning" |
| ~ moon around, moon on, moon | be idle in a listless or dreamy way. |
| ~ ride the bench, warm the bench | be out of the game.; "Miller was riding the bench in Saturday's game" |
| ~ moon, daydream | have dreamlike musings or fantasies while awake.; "She looked out the window, daydreaming" |
| ~ arse about, arse around, bum about, bum around, frig around, fuck off, loaf, loll around, lounge about, lounge around, waste one's time, bum, loll | be lazy or idle.; "Her son is just bumming around all day" |
| ~ lie about, lie around | hang around idly.; "She did all the work while he lay around" |
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