pitiful
21pitiful — /ˈpɪtəfəl / (say pituhfuhl) adjective 1. such as to excite or deserve pity: a pitiful fate. 2. such as to excite contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc.: *He made another pitiful attempt to speak, but the effort was beyond him and, ashamed of… …
22pitiful — adjective Date: 14th century 1. archaic full of pity ; compassionate 2. a. deserving or arousing pity or commiseration b. exciting pitying contempt (as by meanness or inadequacy) < pitiful wages > • pitifully adverb • pitifulness …
23pitiful — adj. Pitiful is used with these nouns: ↑excuse, ↑existence, ↑sight, ↑state …
24pitiful — adjective 1》 deserving or arousing pity. ↘archaic compassionate. 2》 very small or poor; inadequate: a pitiful attempt. Derivatives pitifully adverb pitifulness noun …
25pitiful - pitiable — You say that someone is pitiful when they are very sad, weak, or unfortunate, and you feel great pity for them. ...a fragile and pitiful old lady. ...his thin, bony legs and his pitiful arms. You can describe the experience of seeing a person… …
26pitiful — Synonyms and related words: abominable, affecting, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable,… …
27pitiful — pit·i·ful || pɪtɪfÊŠl adj. arousing compassion, emotionally moving …
28pitiful — a. 1. Compassionate, tender, tenderhearted, sympathetic, kind, merciful, lenient, mild. 2. Miserable, pitiable, wretched, deplorable, lamentable. 3. Mean, base, vile, low, paltry, sorry, abject, rascally, contemptible, despicable, insignificant,… …
29pitiful — adj 1. pathetic, pitiable, piteous, sad, doleful, dolorous. See piteous. 2. miserable, wretched, abject, squalid, stark, dismal; poor, meager, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, beggarly, sorry, cheap, niggardly, worthless; shabby, shoddy, scrubby, scruffy …
30pitiful — piti·ful …
