Usually means: Feeling sorrow for someone's suffering.
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  1. pitying: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pitying: Merriam-Webster
  3. pitying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pitying: Collins English Dictionary
  5. pitying: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pitying, pitying: Wordnik
  7. pitying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pitying: Wiktionary
  9. pitying: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Pitying, pitying: Dictionary.com
  11. pitying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Pitying: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. pitying: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. pitying: Rhymezone
  15. Pitying: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. pitying: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pitying: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitying: Legal dictionary

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  1. pitying: Idioms

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▸ noun:  The act of one who pities.

Similar:
compassionate, sorry, sorry for, pitier, pittie, pity party, pity pie, pity potty, piteousness, self pity, more...

Opposite:
unsympathetic, indifferent, apathetic

Types:
condescending, patronizing, disdainful, more...

Phrases:
self pitying, pitying look, not pitying, pitying yourself, more...

Adjectives:
self, more, little, worth, half, scornful, angry, suspicious, humanly, unself, indignant

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Similar:
compassionate, sorry, sorry for, pitier, pittie, pity party, pity pie, pity potty, piteousness, self pity, more...

Opposite:
unsympathetic, indifferent, apathetic

Types:
condescending, patronizing, disdainful, more...

Phrases:
self pitying, pitying look, not pitying, pitying yourself, more...

Adjectives:
self, more, little, worth, half, scornful, angry, suspicious, humanly, unself, indignant

Colors:
    pale pink,     lavender,     muted blue,     gentle lilac,     pastel yellow, more...



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