'Pitiable' definitions:
Definition of 'pitiable'
From: WordNet
adjective
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful]
adjective
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"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]
Definition of 'Pitiable'
From: GCIDE
- Pitiable \Pit"i*a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. pitiable, F. pitoyable.] Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. [1913 Webster] -- {Pit"i*a*ble*ness}, n. -- {Pit"i*a*bly}, adv. [1913 Webster]