PITYING Synonyms

• showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states

• of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system

• expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

• having similar disposition and tastes

• relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body

• to feel or express sympathy or compassion

• express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• an expression of sympathy with another's grief

• a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

• a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• a style that has the power to evoke feelings

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• United States professional baseball player famous for hitting home runs (1895-1948)

• the great-grandmother of king David whose story is told in the Book of Ruth in the Old Testament

• a book of the Old Testament that tells the story of Ruth who was not an Israelite but who married an Israelite and who stayed with her mother-in-law Naomi after her husband died

• a painful emotion resulting from an awareness of inadequacy or guilt

• a state of dishonor

• an unfortunate development

• bring shame or dishonor upon

• compel through a sense of shame

• cause to be ashamed

• surpass or beat by a wide margin

• share the suffering of

• share the suffering of

• share the suffering of