pity

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Oh boy, then you must feel real pity for the guys at Apple.

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Quick take

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of pity gathered in one view.

noun

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

noun

an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for pity.

noun

a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"

noun

an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"

noun

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

verb

share the suffering of

Example sentences

Oh boy, then you must feel real pity for the guys at Apple.

I love what I am doing, and It would be a pity to give it up.

Please be careful with that; it would be a pity to see such a pearl to swell into bloatware.

There's probably some pity in there too, but honestly, it's mostly respect.

I'm sorry to be callous, but at this point I feel little pity for someone still buying domains through GoDaddy.

A pity that the company blew the chance to deliver a kind human response from the podium, but you can't fix history.

I predict the world will evolve techniques and customs to protect against this sort of thing, and look back on our era with pity and horror because we didn't have them.

It's a pity that the then Micro-soft did not have copy protection technology - if they had, they might never have established such a strong foothold in the market, and the history of computing would have been quite different.

So it looks like the language isn't open source and won't target non-Apple runtimes?I'm not trying to troll, I just think that it's a pity that Apple tends to limit the ecosystem and applications of its otherwise-great languages.

More's the pity that most people can't really achieve big results like this; we have to retain ownership of our businesses in order to really live out our principles.-A commenter on Ars, on why no one else fought Soverain to the end:I think the problem from most defendants' perspective is that they can just pass the costs along to their customers without facing any strategic disadvantage.