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Pitiful Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Pitiful?
[adj] inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
[adj] deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [adj] bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pitiful: bad | contemptible | deplorable | distressing | hapless | lamentable | miserable | misfortunate | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | poor | sad | sorry | unfortunate | wretched Related Terms | Find terms related to Pitiful: abominable | affecting | arrant | atrocious | awful | base | beastly | beggarly | beneath contempt | beneath one | blameworthy | brutal | cheap | cheesy | common | contemptible | crummy | debasing | degrading | demeaning | deplorable | despicable | detestable | dire | disgraceful | disgusting | doleful | dreadful | egregious | enormous | fetid | filthy | flagrant | foul | fulsome | gaudy | gimcracky | grievous | gross | gutter | hateful | heartrending | heinous | horrible | horrid | humiliating | humiliative | infamous | infra dig | infra indignitatem | insignificant | lamentable | little | loathsome | lousy | mean | meretricious | miserable | monstrous | moving | nasty | nefarious | noisome | notorious | obnoxious | odious | offensive | opprobrious | outrageous | paltry | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | poor | rank | regrettable | reprehensible | repulsive | rotten | rubbishy | rueful | sad | scandalous | schlock | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | scuzzy | shabby | shameful | shocking | shoddy | small | sordid | sorry | squalid | terrible | too bad | touching | trashy | trifling | trumpery | two-for-a-cent | two-for-a-penny | twopenny | twopenny-halfpenny | unbecoming | unclean | unimportant | unworthy of one | valueless | vile | villainous | woeful | worst | worthless | wretched See Also | Pitiful In Webster's Dictionary \Pit"i*ful\, a.
1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind;
merciful; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
--James v. 11.
2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.
--Spenser.
3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable;
paltry; contemptible; despicable.
That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
in the fool that uses it. --Shak.
Syn: Despicable; mean; paltry. See {Contemptible}. --
{Pit"i*ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pit"i*ful*ness}, n.
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