pitiful
Meaning of pitiful
adjective
- Feeling pity; merciful.
- So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Scotland has a pitiful climate.
- Of an amount or number: very small.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
adverb
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
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Hyphenation of pitiful
piti-ful
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- pitiful is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
pitiful synonyms
Meaning pathetic:
Meaning deplorable:
deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry
Meaning hapless:
hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched
Translation of pitiful
- Italian: pietoso, povero, miserevole
- Spanish: misericordioso
- German: erbärmlich
- French: miséricordieux
- Portuguese: piedoso
Words that rhyme with pitiful
fanciful, merciful, nonfanciful, overfanciful, overmerciful, unfanciful, unmerciful, folliful, weariful, Bountiful, beautiful, bountiful, dutiful, overplentiful, plentiful, unbeautiful, unbountiful, undutiful, unpitiful, unplentiful
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