| 单词 | self-pity |
| 释义 | self-pity (once / 7168 pages) n If you're completely focused on feeling bad about your own problems and complaints, you're feeling self-pity. Your self-pity can make it hard to appreciate that other people face more serious troubles than you do. When you feel sorry for yourself, or overly sad about the difficulties you face, you're indulging in self-pity. It's often easier to identify self-pity in other people than in yourself, partly because your own self-pity keeps your attention focused inward. Before the 17th century, pity and piety meant the same thing, "compassion, care, or tenderness." Today piety means "religious reverence." WORD FAMILYpity: piteous, pitiable, pitied, pities, pitiful, pitiless, pitying, self-pity+/piteous: piteously/pitiable: pitiablest, pitiably/pitiful: pitifulest, pitifully/pitiless: pitilessly, pitilessness/pitying: unpitying/unpitying: unpityingly USAGE EXAMPLESDuring the editing, one of Mills’s producers sent him a note: “No more self-pity.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The song invites a delicious, almost luxuriant self-pity and melancholy that envelops you like a steaming tub filled with expensive bath oils. New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) He rejects the self-pity trope, insisting, “I enjoy being an outsider. It’s also a joyful thing.” New York Times(Dec 22, 2016) n a feeling of sorrow (often self-indulgent) over your own sufferings Hyper sorrow an emotion of great sadness associated with loss or bereavement |
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