" pitying "

1: as in patient, understanding;

•  Synonyms : 

•  patient,

•  tolerant,

•  understanding,

•  clement,

•  forbearing,

•  forgiving,

•  lenient,

•  merciful,

•  soft,

•  beneficent,

•  benevolent,

•  benignant,

•  compassionate,

•  good-hearted,

•  humane,

•  kind,

•  kindhearted,

•  kindly,

•  softhearted,

•  sympathetic,

•  tender,

•  tenderhearted,

•  warmhearted,

•  attentive,

•  considerate,

•  solicitous,

•  thoughtful,

•  affable,

•  amicable,

•  benign,

•  companionable,

•  comradely,

•  cordial,

•  friendly,

•  genial,

•  gentle,

•  good,

•  good-natured,

•  good-tempered,

•  gracious,

•  mild,

•  neighborly,

•  nice,

•  pleasant,

•  sweet,

•  warm,

•  altruistic,

•  brotherly,

•  charitable,

•  freehanded,

•  generous,

•  greathearted,

•  humanitarian,

•  liberal,

•  magnanimous,

•  munificent,

•  noble,

•  openhearted,

•  philanthropic,

•  selfless,

•  unselfish,

•  unsparing,

•  anticruelty,

•  cruelty-free

•  Antonyms : 

•  grim,

•  hard-boiled,

•  harsh,

•  heavy-handed,

•  severe,

•  stern,

•  tough,

•  unsentimental,

•  ironhearted,

•  merciless,

•  pitiless,

•  ruthless,

•  stonyhearted,

•  inconsiderate,

•  insensitive,

•  thoughtless,

•  uncaring,

•  unthinking,

•  hateful,

•  malevolent,

•  malicious,

•  malign,

•  malignant,

•  mean,

•  nasty,

•  spiteful,

•  virulent,

•  antihumanitarian,

•  uncharitable,

•  atrocious,

•  barbaric,

•  barbarous,

•  bestial,

•  brutal,

•  brute,

•  brutish,

•  callous,

•  cold-blooded,

•  cruel,

•  fiendish,

•  hard-hearted,

•  heartless,

•  inhuman,

•  inhumane,

•  insensate,

•  sadistic,

•  savage,

•  truculent,

•  uncompassionate,

•  unfeeling,

•  unkind,

•  unkindly,

•  unsympathetic,

•  vicious,

•  wanton

1: to have sympathy for;

  * e.g., " ... I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather "

•  Synonyms : 

•  aching (for),

•  bleeding (for),

•  commiserating (with),

•  compassionating,

•  condoling (with),

•  feeling (for),

•  sympathizing (with),

•  yearning (over)

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: to have sympathy for;

  * e.g., " ... I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather "

•  Synonyms : 

•  ache (for),

•  bleed (for),

•  commiserate (with),

•  compassionate,

•  condole (with),

•  feel (for),

•  sympathize (with),

•  yearn (over)

•  Antonyms : 

• (N/A)

1: a feeling of pity for yourself because you believe you have suffered more than is fair or reasonable;

  * e.g., " ... He was wallowing in self-pity. "

•  Synonyms : 

•  melancholia,

•  blue devils,

•  blues,

•  dejection,

•  depression,

•  desolation,

•  despond,

•  despondence,

•  despondency,

•  disconsolateness,

•  dispiritedness,

•  doldrums,

•  dolefulness,

•  downheartedness,

•  dreariness,

•  dumps,

•  forlornness,

•  gloom,

•  gloominess,

•  glumness,

•  heartsickness,

•  joylessness,

•  melancholy,

•  miserableness,

•  mopes,

•  mournfulness,

•  oppression,

•  sadness,

•  sorrowfulness,

•  unhappiness,

•  anguish,

•  dolor,

•  grief,

•  mourning,

•  somberness,

•  sorrow,

•  woefulness,

•  agony,

•  distress,

•  pain,

•  misery,

•  woe,

•  wretchedness,

•  discouragement,

•  disheartenment,

•  moodiness,

•  despair,

•  desperation,

•  hopelessness,

•  self-despair,

•  boredom,

•  ennui,

•  tedium,

•  dismalness,

•  drear,

•  morbidness,

•  moroseness,

•  morosity,

•  regret,

•  rue

•  Antonyms : 

•  gaiety,

•  gayness,

•  glee,

•  gleefulness,

•  humor,

•  jollity,

•  joviality,

•  lightheartedness,

•  merriment,

•  mirth,

•  mirthfulness,

•  cheer,

•  cheerfulness,

•  cheeriness,

•  hopefulness,

•  optimism,

•  sunniness,

•  content,

•  contentedness,

•  contentment,

•  satisfaction,

•  delight,

•  gratification,

•  bliss,

•  blissfulness,

•  ecstasy,

•  elatedness,

•  elation,

•  euphoria,

•  exhilaration,

•  exuberance,

•  exultation,

•  felicity,

•  gladness,

•  gladsomeness,

•  happiness,

•  heaven,

•  intoxication,

•  joy,

•  joyfulness,

•  joyousness,

•  jubilation,

•  rapture,

•  rapturousness