1. Showing merciful compassion.
2. Showing or having compassion.
3. Showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances.

1. Showing or giving mercy
2. Used conventionally of royalty and high nobility

1. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
2. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry
3. Deserving or arousing pity or commiseration
4. Exciting pitying contempt (as by meanness or inadequacy)

Feeling or expressing sorrow or pity; SYN. sorry, sorry for.

In a compassionate manner; mercifully.

1. In a compassionate manner; SYN. with mercy, showing mercy.
2. In a manner that may be cruel but avoids suffering

To a pitiful degree.

In a compassionate manner; SYN. compassionately, with compassion, with pity.