pitiful.
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Meaning & usage
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Scotland has a pitiful climate.
Eliciting contempt.
Of an amount or number: very small.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
Feeling pity; merciful.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
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