Pitiful

Adjective

 * 1)  Feeling pity; merciful.
 * 2) *1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick:
 * Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
 * 1) So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
 * Scotland has a pitiful climate.
 * 1) Very small (of an amount).
 * A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:lamentable

Related terms

 * pitiable
 * pity

Adverbs for Pitiful
gently; comfortingly; mildly; wisely; intelligently; sympathetically; helpfully; compassionately; sweetly; indulgently; tolerantly; mercifully; leniently; immensely; unusually; humanely.

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

Etymology
From.

Pronunciation

 * SAMPA /"pIt@f=l/
 * SAMPA /"pIt@f=l/
 * SAMPA /"pIt@f=l/

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,


 * Finnish: säälittävä


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 很少 (hěn shǎo)


 * Finnish: säälittävä


 * : zielig, triest (1), deplorabel (1)
 * : pitoyable
 * :, kläglich,
 * :, kläglich,


 * : מעורר רחמים (meʿorer rɑḥɑmim), עלוב