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pitiest

pitiest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of pity.

Meaning of pity

Verb

pity (third-person singular simple present pities, present participle pitying, simple past and past participle pitied)

  1. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
    • You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.
  2. (transitive) To feel contempt for someone who is hopelessly inferior.
  3. (regional, transitive) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
    • She lenger yet is like captiv'd to bee; / That even to thinke thereof it inly pitties mee.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

See all 7 meanings of pity

Origin of pitiest

pity + -est

Questions about pitiest

What is pitiest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Pitiest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of pity.

Words near pitiest in the dictionary

  1. pitie
  2. pitied
  3. pitier
  4. pitiers
  5. pities
  6. pitiest
  7. pitieth
  8. pitiful
  9. pitifull
  10. pitifuller
  11. pitifullest

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