pitiful

Meaning of pitiful

adjective
  1. Feeling pity; merciful.
  2. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
    Scotland has a pitiful climate.
  3. 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:

pathetic, pitiable

Meaning deplorable:

deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry

Meaning hapless:

hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched

Translation of pitiful

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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