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Definition of pity : 1. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow- feeling; commiseration.
2. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
3. Piety.
4. To be compassionate; to show pity.
5. 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.
6. To move to pity; - used impersonally.

Synonyms:

compassionate, pathos, charity, blessing, humanity, gentleness, lenity, spare, compunction, philanthropy, benevolence, misfortune, be sorry, sympathise, feel, ache, forbearance, empathy, compassionateness, forgiveness, disgrace, forgive, favor, take pity on someone, condole with, poignancy, grace, hatred, affinity, feel sorry for someone, crime, fellow feeling, ignominy, unselfishness, extend/offer your sympathy/sympathies, make encouraging/sympathetic etc. noises, benignity, lenience, mischance, mishap, disaster, clemency, shame, condolences, pardon, yearn, catastrophe, sentiment, good, bummer, mildness, kindness, kindliness, sympathize with, severity, condolence, Ruth, understanding

compassion, relent, sympathy, show compassion, take pity on, commiseration, humaneness, empathize, lament, sympathize, condole, tenderness, feel for, leniency, mercy, commiserate

Usage examples:

• That would be a pity indeed." - "Madame Roland, Makers of History", John S. C. Abbott.
• She said it seemed a pity. - "Joe Wilson and His Mates", Henry Lawson.
• But, woman, haven't you any pity? - "The Social Cancer A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere", José Rizal.