Usually means: Feeling sorrow for someone's suffering.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word pitying:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitying: Idioms

(Note: See pity as well.)

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noun:  The act of one who pities.

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