Synonyms of the word

ruth

• n. (archaic) Sorrow for the misery of another; pity, compassion; mercy.
• n. (now rare) Repentance; regret; remorse.
• n. (obsolete) Sorrow; misery; distress. 13th-19th c.
• n. (obsolete) Something which causes regret or sorrow; a pitiful sight.

ballplayer

• n. A player of a ball game; especially a basketball, baseball, or football player.

book

• n. A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material,…
• n. A long work fit for publication, typically prose, such as a novel or textbook, and typically published…
• n. A major division of a long work.
• n. (gambling) A record of betting (from the use of a notebook to record what each person has bet).
• n. A convenient collection, in a form resembling a book, of small paper items for individual use.
• n. (theater) The script of a musical.
• n. (usually in the plural) Records of the accounts of a business.
• n. A long document stored (as data) that is or will become a book; an e-book.
• n. (law) A colloquial reference to a book award, a recognition for receiving the highest grade in a class…
• n. (whist) Six tricks taken by one side.
• n. (poker slang) four of a kind.
• n. (sports) A document, held by the referee, of the incidents happened in the game.
• n. (sports, by extension) A list of all players who have been booked (received a warning) in a game.
• v. (transitive) To reserve (something) for future use.
• v. (transitive) To write down, to register or record in a book or as in a book.
• v. (law enforcement, transitive) To record the name and other details of a suspected offender and the offence…
• v. (sports) To issue with a caution, usually a yellow card, or a red card if a yellow card has already been…
• v. (intransitive, slang) To travel very fast.
• v. To record bets as bookmaker.
• v. (transitive, law student slang) To receive the highest grade in a class.
• v. (intransitive, slang) To leave.
• v. (Britain dialectal, Northern England) simple past tense of bake.

commiseration

• n. The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion.

pathos

• n. The quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, especially…
• n. (rhetoric) A writer or speaker's attempt to persuade an audience through appeals involving the use of…
• n. (literature) An author's attempt to evoke a feeling of pity or sympathetic sorrow for a character.
• n. (theology, philosophy) In theology and existentialist ethics following Kierkegaard and Heidegger, a deep…
• n. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction.

pity

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
• n. (countable) Something regrettable.
• n. (obsolete) Piety.
• v. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
• interj. Short form of what a pity.

sympathy

• n. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
• n. The ability to share the feelings of another.
• n. A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
• n. Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

wife

• n. A married woman, especially in relation to her spouse.
• n. The female of a pair of mated animals.
• n. (Scotland) Synonym of woman.