Usually means: Arousing sorrow through pathetic conditions.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. pitiful: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pitiful: Merriam-Webster
  3. pitiful: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pitiful: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pitiful: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pitiful: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pitiful, pitiful: Wordnik
  8. pitiful: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pitiful: Wiktionary
  10. pitiful: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pitiful: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pitiful: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pitiful, pitiful: Dictionary.com
  14. pitiful: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pitiful (Sick Puppies song): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pitiful: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pitiful: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pitiful: Rhymezone
  19. pitiful: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pitiful: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pitiful: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pitiful: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pitiful: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pitiful: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitiful: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pitiful: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pitiful)

▸ adjective:  (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
▸ adjective:  So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
▸ adjective:  Of an amount or number: very small.
▸ adverb:  (colloquial, dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.

Similar:
pitiable, pathetic, lamentable, piteous, miserable, deplorable, contemptible, misfortunate, sad, hapless, more...

Opposite:
commendable, admirable, praiseworthy, laudable

Types:
pathetic, more...

Phrases:
You're Pitiful, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, pitiful bunch, pitiful look, opposite of pitiful, more...

Adjectives:
most, wondrous, real, such, last, poor, right, least, mighty, plumb

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     pale yellow,     faded pink,     drab green, more...



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Similar:
pitiable, pathetic, lamentable, piteous, miserable, deplorable, contemptible, misfortunate, sad, hapless, more...

Opposite:
commendable, admirable, praiseworthy, laudable

Types:
pathetic, more...

Phrases:
You're Pitiful, Poor Poor Pitiful Me, pitiful bunch, pitiful look, opposite of pitiful, pitiful hurt person in need, pitiful cute, pitiful wretch, be pitiful, self pitiful, mortifying pitiful lewd, more...

Adjectives:
most, wondrous, real, such, last, poor, right, least, mighty, plumb

Colors:
    gray,     dull brown,     pale yellow,     faded pink,     drab green, more...



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