pitiful
Speech parts
1. pitiful - Adjective
2. pitiful - Adverb
3. pitiful - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
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Examples
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!
These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, Waking in the dawn of the morning, In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity, Sleeping in the cold night's arms.
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.