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Pitiable

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Arousing or deserving of pity or compassion; lamentable.

adj. Arousing disdainful pity. See Synonyms at pathetic.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity, pitiful.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Deserving pity; worthy of or exciting compassion: applied to persons or things.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. deserving or inciting pity

adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity

Word Usage

"For the day came when Mulcachy rapped the chair with his whip-butt, when the attendant through the bars jabbed the iron fork into Ben Bolt's ribs, and when Ben Bolt, anything but royal, slinking like a beaten alley-cat, in pitiable terror, crawled over to the chair and sat down in it like a man."

Equivalent

unfortunate contemptible

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

piteous woeful sad sorrowful miserable

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

deplorable piteous abject shameful despicable