pitiful adjective - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes . . . Definition of pitiful adjective from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary deserving pity or causing you to feel pity synonym pathetic The horse was a pitiful sight (= because it was very thin or sick) The Oxford Learner’s Thesaurus explains the difference between groups of similar words
pitiful | meaning of pitiful in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary . . . From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English pit‧i‧ful ˈpɪtɪfəl adjective 1 someone who is pitiful looks or sounds so sad and unfortunate that you feel very sorry for them → pity The refugees were a pitiful sight 2 a pitiful amount is very small The fee was pitiful – only about £60 3 very bad in quality SYN awful His performance was pitif
Pitiful - definition of pitiful by The Free Dictionary 1 evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate 2 arousing contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc : pitiful attempts 3 Archaic full of pity; compassionate syn: pitiful, pitiable, piteous apply to that which arouses pity (with compassion or with contempt)
pitiable vs. pitiful vs. piteous vs. pitiless on Vocabulary. com Pitiable, piteous, and pitiful all mean some shade of deserving pity Let's see if we can untangle the differences Piteous and pitiable both mean being deserving of pity: A single drought could spell the end of a society and doom its inhabitants to piteous deaths
pitiful: meaning, synonyms - WordSense So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity Scotland has a pitiful climate Very small (of an amount or number) A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up Automatically generated practical examples in English: