Synonyms of pitying

pitying 1 of 2

adjective

as in merciful

Related Words

• merciful
• tolerant
• sympathetic
• understanding
• patient
• forbearing
• forgiving
• lenient
• benevolent
• compassionate
• kind
• kindly
• beneficent
• kindhearted
• humane
• solicitous
• considerate
• soft
• attentive
• good-hearted
• good-natured
• softhearted
• thoughtful
• tender
• gracious
• benignant
• gentle
• clement
• warmhearted
• tenderhearted
• warm
• sweet
• mild
• pleasant
• magnanimous
• benign
• affable
• friendly
• generous
• genial
• companionable
• charitable
• neighborly
• selfless
• cordial
• liberal
• unselfish
• altruistic
• good-tempered
• amicable
• brotherly
• nice
• noble
• munificent
• unsparing
• philanthropic
• humanitarian
• comradely
• good
• openhearted
• greathearted
• freehanded
• anticruelty
• cruelty-free

Dissimilar Words

• severe
• stern
• grim
• harsh
• tough
• pitiless
• unsentimental
• ruthless
• merciless
• insensitive
• thoughtless
• uncaring
• unthinking
• inconsiderate
• hateful
• spiteful
• malignant
• mean
• malicious
• malevolent
• virulent
• heavy-handed
• malign
• cruel
• hard-boiled
• nasty
• unkind
• uncharitable
• callous
• unsympathetic
• savage
• heartless
• vicious
• barbarous
• unfeeling
• inhuman
• sadistic
• ironhearted
• brutal
• stonyhearted
• insensate
• bestial
• brute
• atrocious
• barbaric
• brutish
• truculent
• inhumane
• fiendish
• unkindly
• hard-hearted
• uncompassionate
• wanton
• cold-blooded
• antihumanitarian

pitying

2 of 2

verb

present participle of pity

as in loving

to have sympathy for

I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loving
• compassionating
• feeling (for)
• bleeding (for)
• sympathizing (with)
• yearning (over)
• aching (for)
• commiserating (with)
• understanding
• condoling (with)
• tolerating
• grieving (for)
• identifying (with)
• caring (for)
• sorrowing (for)
• empathizing (with)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ignoring
• neglecting
• disregarding
• overlooking
• hating
• scorning
• disliking

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of pitying

Verb

There is nothing pitying and also nothing airbrushed in the pictures—just the occasional haze of a misty morning or the blurry tremor of a burning brush pile. — Casey Cep, New Yorker, 9 May 2026

Twenty-first-century indie shaped the identities of many Millennials, but it’s now often talked about with pitying nostalgia—as the bygone style of hipsters with handlebar mustaches pretending to be countercultural while making easy-listening music for hotel lobbies. — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025