pityingly

1. 1.

   in a compassionate manner

   “the nurse looked at him pityingly”

   Synonymscompassionately

Questions about pityingly

What does pityingly mean?

pityingly means "in a compassionate manner".

How many syllables are in pityingly?

pityingly has 3 syllables and divides as pi-tyin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for pityingly?

Close synonyms include compassionately. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pityingly a common word?

pityingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.