'Pitiful' definitions:
Definition of 'pitiful'
(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
Bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
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 'Pitiful'
From: GCIDE
- Pitiful \Pit"i*ful\, a.
- 1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. [1913 Webster]
- A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. [1913 Webster]
- That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible. [1913 Webster] -- {Pit"i*ful*ly}, adv. -- {Pit"i*ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'pitiful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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