Synonyms of pitying

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adjective

as in merciful

Synonyms & Similar Words

• merciful
• tolerant
• sympathetic
• understanding
• patient
• forbearing
• forgiving
• lenient
• benevolent
• compassionate
• kind
• kindly
• beneficent
• kindhearted
• humane
• benignant
• solicitous
• considerate
• attentive
• soft
• good-hearted
• good-natured
• softhearted
• thoughtful
• tender
• gracious
• 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
• philanthropical
• openhearted
• greathearted
• freehanded
• anticruelty
• cruelty-free

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• 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

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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