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pique arises from wounded vanity or sensitiveness, umbrage from wounded pride or sometimes from
suspicion. Resentment rests on more solid grounds, and is deep and persistent. Compare ANGER.
Antonyms:
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approval, contentment, gratification, pleasure, satisfaction. complacency, delight,
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PITIFUL.
Synonyms:
abject, lamentable, paltry, sorrowful, base, miserable, pathetic, touching, contemptible, mournful, piteous,
woful, despicable, moving, pitiable, wretched.
Pitiful originally signified full of pity; as, "the Lord is very pitiful and of tender mercy," James v, 11; but this
usage is now archaic, and the meaning in question is appropriated by such words as merciful and
compassionate. Pitiful and pitiable now refer to what may be deserving of pity, pitiful being used chiefly for
that which is merely an object of thought, pitiable for that which is brought directly before the senses; as, a
pitiful story; a pitiable object; a pitiable condition. Since pity, however, always implies weakness or
inferiority in that which is pitied, pitiful and pitiable are often used, by an easy transition, for what might
awaken pity, but does awaken contempt; as, a pitiful excuse; he presented a pitiable appearance. Piteous is
now rarely used in its earlier sense of feeling pity, but in its derived sense applies to what really excites the
emotion; as, a piteous cry. Compare HUMANE; MERCY; PITY.
Antonyms:
august, dignified, grand, lofty, sublime, beneficent, exalted, great, mighty, superb, commanding, glorious,
helpful, noble, superior.
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PITY.
Synonyms:
commiseration, condolence, sympathy, tenderness. compassion, mercy,
Pity is a feeling of grief or pain aroused by the weakness, misfortunes, or distresses of others, joined with a
desire to help or relieve. Sympathy (feeling or suffering with) implies some degree of equality, kindred, or
union; pity is for what is weak or unfortunate, and so far, at least, inferior to ourselves; hence, pity is often
resented where sympathy would be welcome. We have sympathy with one in joy or grief, in pleasure or pain,
pity only for those in suffering or need; we may have sympathy with the struggles of a giant or the triumphs of
a conqueror; we are moved with pity for the captive or the slave. Pity may be only in the mind, but mercy does
something for those who are its objects. Compassion, like pity, is exercised only with respect to the suffering
or unfortunate, but combines with the tenderness of pity the dignity of sympathy and the active quality of
mercy. Commiseration is as tender as compassion, but more remote and hopeless; we have commiseration for
sufferers whom we can not reach or can not relieve. Condolence is the expression of sympathy. Compare
MERCY.
Antonyms:
barbarity, ferocity, harshness, pitilessness, severity, brutality, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, rigor, sternness,
cruelty, hardness, mercilessness, ruthlessness, truculence.
Prepositions:
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Pity on or upon that which we help or spare; pity for that which we merely contemplate; "have pity upon me,
O ye my friends," Job xix, 21; "pity for a horse o'erdriven," TENNYSON In Memoriam lxii, st. 1.
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PLANT.
Synonyms:
seed, seed down, set, set out, sow.
We set or set out slips, cuttings, young trees, etc., tho we may also be said to plant them; we plant corn,
potatoes, etc., which we put in definite places, as in hills, with some care; we sow wheat or other small grains
and seeds which are scattered in the process. Tho by modern agricultural machinery the smaller grains are
almost as precisely planted as corn, the old word for broadcast scattering is retained. Land is seeded or seeded
down to grass.
Antonyms:
eradicate, extirpate, root up, uproot, weed out.
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PLEAD.
Synonyms:
advocate, ask, beseech, implore, solicit, argue, beg, entreat, press, urge.
To plead for one is to employ argument or persuasion, or both in his behalf, usually with earnestness or
importunity; similarly one may be said to plead for himself or for a cause, etc., or with direct object, to plead
a case; in legal usage, pleading is argumentative, but in popular usage, pleading always implies some appeal
to the feelings. One argues a case solely on rational grounds and supposably with fair consideration of both
sides; he advocates one side for the purpose of carrying it, and under the influence of motives that may range
all the way from cold self-interest to the highest and noblest impulses; he pleads a cause, or pleads for a
person with still more intense feeling. Beseech, entreat, and implore imply impassioned earnestness, with
direct and tender appeal to personal considerations. Press and urge imply more determined or perhaps
authoritative insistence. Solicit is a weak word denoting merely an attempt to secure one's consent or
cooperation, sometimes by sordid or corrupt motives.
Prepositions:
Plead with the tyrant for the captive; plead against the oppression or the oppressor; plead to the indictment; at
the bar; before the court; in open court.
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PLEASANT.
Synonyms:
agreeable, good-natured, kindly, pleasing, attractive, kind, obliging, pleasurable.
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That is pleasing from which pleasure is received, or may readily be received, without reference to any action
or intent in that which confers it; as, a pleasing picture; a pleasing landscape. Whatever has active qualities
adapted to give pleasure is pleasant; as, a pleasant breeze; a pleasant (not a pleasing) day. As applied to
persons, pleasant always refers to a disposition ready and desirous to please; one is pleasant, or in a pleasant
mood, when inclined to make happy those with whom he is dealing, to show kindness and do any reasonable
favor. In this sense pleasant is nearly akin to kind, but kind refers to act or intent, while pleasant stops with
the disposition; many persons are no longer in a pleasant mood if asked to do a troublesome kindness.
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