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pitied
" They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
Jane Austen

Meaning of "pitied" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF PITIED

pitied


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PITIED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pitied is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb pitied in English.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PITIED

PRESENT

Present
I pity
you pity
he/she/it pities
we pity
you pity
they pity
Present continuous
I am pitying
you are pitying
he/she/it is pitying
we are pitying
you are pitying
they are pitying
Present perfect
I have pitied
you have pitied
he/she/it has pitied
we have pitied
you have pitied
they have pitied
Present perfect continuous
I have been pitying
you have been pitying
he/she/it has been pitying
we have been pitying
you have been pitying
they have been pitying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I pitied
you pitied
he/she/it pitied
we pitied
you pitied
they pitied
Past continuous
I was pitying
you were pitying
he/she/it was pitying
we were pitying
you were pitying
they were pitying
Past perfect
I had pitied
you had pitied
he/she/it had pitied
we had pitied
you had pitied
they had pitied
Past perfect continuous
I had been pitying
you had been pitying
he/she/it had been pitying
we had been pitying
you had been pitying
they had been pitying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will pity
you will pity
he/she/it will pity
we will pity
you will pity
they will pity
Future continuous
I will be pitying
you will be pitying
he/she/it will be pitying
we will be pitying
you will be pitying
they will be pitying
Future perfect
I will have pitied
you will have pitied
he/she/it will have pitied
we will have pitied
you will have pitied
they will have pitied
Future perfect continuous
I will have been pitying
you will have been pitying
he/she/it will have been pitying
we will have been pitying
you will have been pitying
they will have been pitying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would pitied
you would pitied
he/she/it would pitied
we would pitied
you would pitied
they would pitied
Conditional continuous
I would be pitying
you would be pitying
he/she/it would be pitying
we would be pitying
you would be pitying
they would be pitying
Conditional perfect
I would have pitied
you would have pitied
he/she/it would have pitied
we would have pitied
you would have pitied
they would have pitied
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been pitying
you would have been pitying
he/she/it would have been pitying
we would have been pitying
you would have been pitying
they would have been pitying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you pity
we let´s pity
you pity
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to pity
Past participle
pitied
Present Participle
pitying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PITIED

pithiest · pithily · pithiness · pithless · pithlike · pithoi · pithos · pithy · pitiable · pitiableness · pitiably · pitier · pities · pitiful · pitifully · pitifulness · pitiless · pitilessly · pitilessness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PITIED

amnestied · citied · cup-tied · dirtied · emptied · fit to be tied · have one´s hands tied · necessitied · partied · prettied · propertied · puttied · qualitied · stied · tied · tongue-tied · unpitied · unpropertied · unqualitied · vanitied

Synonyms and antonyms of pitied in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PITIED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «pitied» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «pitied» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF PITIED

Find out the translation of pitied to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of pitied from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pitied» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

被同情
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

compadecido
570 millions of speakers
en

English

pitied
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

दया आ गई थी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يشفق
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

жалели
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

pitied
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

করুণা
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

plaindre
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Teragak-agak
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

bemitleidet
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

同情
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

동정
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Pitied
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thương hại
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

தப்பவிடாமல்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Pitied
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

acıdım
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

compatito
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

żal
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

шкодували
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

milă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pitied
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

medelyde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

synd
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

skånsel
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pitied

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PITIED»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of pitied
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pitied

EXAMPLES

10 QUOTES WITH «PITIED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word pitied.
1
Jane Austen
They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life.
2
Saint Teresa of Avila
My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much so, that he never could be persuaded to keep slaves, for he pitied them so much: and a slave belonging to one of his brothers being once in his house, was treated by him with as much tenderness as his own children.
3
Kelly Corrigan
I almost threw up the first time I set foot inside the University of California, San Francisco's Comprehensive Care Center and joined the stream of thin, slow-moving, low-voiced, gray-skinned people. I didn't want to be one of the pitied, the struck-down.
4
Abba Eban
Better to be disliked than pitied.
5
Oliver Goldsmith
All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
6
Herodotus
How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.
7
Rockwell Kent
If to the viewer's eyes, my world appears less beautiful than his, I'm to be pitied and the viewer praised.
8
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.
9
Jerry Lewis
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
10
Karl Philipp Moritz
A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PITIED»

Discover the use of pitied in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pitied and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of ...
Gordon uncovers the tangled roots of competing visions of welfare and shows that welfare reform can only work if it recognizes that single motherhood is an enduring aspect of contemporary life.
Linda Gordon, 1995
2
The poor and others to be pitied: eighteenth and nineteenth ...
Extracts from Selectmen's Records including funeral expenses, the sick and dying (most of whom are not noted in vital records), warnings out, town lawsuits, indentures, emancipations, some marriages and names of those relegated to the ...
Marilyn Labbe, 2005
3
The Cottager's monthly visitor
"The foolish, simple child is pitied and instructed. The sick child pitied and comforted. The froward child pitied and borne with. The fallen child pitied and helped up again. The punished child pitied and spared. The penitent child pitied and ...
‎1824
4
Navajo/English Dictionary of Verbs
... past I pitied we pitied we pitied you pitied you pitied you pitied she/he pitied they pitied they pitied one pitied people pitied people pitied T'ahigo - future I will pity we will pity we will pity you will pity you will pity you will pity she/he will pity they ...
Alyse Neundorf, 2006
5
Parted on Her Wedding Morn
Parted. on. Her. Wedding. Morn. or. More. to. be. Pitied. than. Scorned. SCENE: BOWERY LIZ'S room in a city tenement house. TIME: A winter's day. SET: An old, shabby room denoting extreme poverty. The walls and floor are bare. A door in ...
Leland Price, 1942
6
Graded Lessons in English: An Elementary English Grammar : ...
This man is to be pitied. He has no friends. 1. This man has no friends, and he is to be pitied. 2. This man is to be pitied, because he has no friends. 3. Because this man has no friends, he is to be pitied. 4. This man, who has no friends, is to be ...
Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, 1885
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Reed & Kellogg's Graded Lessons in English
This man is to be pitied. He has no friends. 1. This man has no friends, and he is to be pitied. 2. This man is to be pitied, because he has no friends. 3. Because this man has no friends, he is to be pitied. 4. This man, who has no friends, is to be ...
Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, 1894
8
Elementary English Grammar
This man is to be pitied. He has no friends. 1. This man has no friends, and he is to be pitied. 2. This man is to be pitied, because he has no friends. 3. Because this man has no friends, he is to be pitied. 4. This man, who has no friends, is to be ...
Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg, 1879
9
Side-lights on Scripture Texts
Montaigne says that whoso makes himself pitied without reason, is a man not to be pitied when there shall be real cause ; by always craving pity, he comes to get none from any. Such too, in effect, the philosophy of that sufferer from neuralgia ...
Francis Jacox, 1877
10
Introductory language work: a series of exercises in English ...
This man is to be pitied. He has no friends. 1. This man has no friends, and he is to be pitied. 2. This man is to be pitied, because he has no friends. 3. Because this man has no friends, he is to be pitied. 4. This man, who has no friends, is to be ...
Alonzo Reed, 1911

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PITIED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pitied is used in the context of the following news items.
1
TomTom Is Alive, and It's Getting Into Self-Driving Cars
As delightful as it might be to be pitied as a fool when you've missed a turn, who needs a hunk of hardware when you've got something in your ... «Wired, Jul 15»
2
2018 W'Cup - S'Eagles Get Easy Draw
Sudan is pitied against Zambia, while Togo will play Uganda. Benin Republic second round foe is Burkina Faso, while Gabon has Mozambique ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
3
Probing Corruption: Are We Distracting Ourselves From The Real …
While the ethnic supremacists up in arms about federal character in probing corruption should be pitied and ignored, it is not so easy to dismiss ... «Leadership Newspapers, Jul 15»
4
Little room for debate on asylum seekers when minds closed
But those people are to be pitied.” Kudos to all the participants in Go Back — it's a valuable forum for discussion. And many more kudos to the ... «Herald Sun, Jul 15»
5
The Sorry Plight of Afghanistan's Crossdressing Boys and Girls
... of this trend stems from the generations-long parental preference of boys over girls in societies where families without sons are pitied. «Newsweek, Jul 15»
6
Uncool study about 'cool' kids
A kid who steals, drinks and ruts about town is more likely to be avoided, pitied or held in contempt by peers. Last year, I wrote a column about ... «Bucks County Courier Times, Jul 15»
7
Puff Pieces for College Basketball Castoffs Put the BS in CBS
Nobody pitied Auburn CEO Bruce Pearl while he idled in ESPN studios. Three months from now, if Tyndall can't land on Stan Van Gundy's ... «Breitbart News, Jul 15»
8
An interview with William Finnegan, author of the surfing book …
They sort of pitied me: 'Here's Bill, the American who failed to start a hotel, and now he's back here paying, and the hotel owners are getting rich ... «Florida Times-Union, Jul 15»
9
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Washington Redskins
They pitied me. Sean: I got married this year to a girl from Detroit and I'm seriously contemplating becoming a Lions fan rather than dealing with ... «Deadspin, Jul 15»
10
The Dream of Redemption in Haibane Renmei
And eventually, being accepted can feel like being pitied - sympathy, like the town, becomes a cage when it coddles you. Reki lives with a ... «Anime News Network, Jul 15»
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