pitiable
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6.1
- adjective
- /ˈpɪtiəbl/
:
lamentable
- The pleasures of a bachelor son and a widowed mother are pitiable.
- more pitiable
Nah, I think it really comes down to that you're sweet and compassionate and you feel sorry for someone who is pitiable and feel sorryable.
- Nah, I think it really comes down to that you're sweet and compassionate and you feel sorry for someone who is pitiable and feel sorryable.
Examples
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"Of course," I said honestly, "it's a pitiable situation you're in, you must admit."
Fiction book (1999) -
You make me sound so pitiable.
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Again, a poor, pitiable boy.
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My heart breaks to see the pitiable sight of your sad faces and hear your sad voices.
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"A battered woman is always a pitiable sight.
Fiction book (1999) -
For what was poor Najma, a pitiable nurse, in the rush and flutter of life?
Fiction book (1994) -
To Lon, recently turned twenty-three, he looked old and somehow pitiable.
Fiction book (2001) -
Among these five major southeastern tribes, the case of the Cherokees was perhaps the most pitiable.
Academic text (1990) -
Job's broken figure appalls: pitiable, desolate, dusted with ash, scraped, torn.
Academic text (1998) -
The nuns who run the shelter find him pitiable and offer him a bed in the men's dormitory.
Synonyms
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1.0
Needing pity because they are hurt, sad, or unlucky
842
1.0
Bad or unfortunate and likely to make people feel unhappy
702
3.9
Very weak or sad in a way that makes people feel pity and dislike
443
1.8
Feeling very unhappy or suffering a lot
92
3.7
Causing someone to feel very sad and upset
30
3.2
Making people feel sorry and want to help because of suffering or weakness
26
7.2
Unlucky in a way that makes people feel sorry
23
3.9
Causing people to feel pity or support for a character
18
3.9
Feeling deep sadness because of a loss
16
5.7
Extremely unhappy and suffering a lot
14
3.6
Feeling very sad because of loss or disappointment
3
7.9
Making people feel sorry because someone is suffering
3
6.0
Feeling very sad and showing deep sorrow, like after bad news
3
8.2
Feeling or showing deep sadness
1
7.1
Unlucky and in need of help
1
9.9
Feeling or showing deep sadness because of a loss
Antonyms
How Pitiable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Pitiable comes from pity plus the ending -able, and pity comes from a Latin word connected to piety that later meant 'compassion'. So, pitiable means 'able to be pitied' or 'deserving sympathy'.