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From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) : [ devils ]
PITIFUL, adj. The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Pitiful \Pit"i*ful\, a. 1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. [1913 Webster] The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11. [1913 Webster] 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. [1913 Webster] A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. [1913 Webster] That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible. [1913 Webster] -- Pit"i*ful*ly, adv. -- Pit"i*ful*ness, n. [1913 Webster]From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Pitiful \Pit"i*ful\, a. 1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. --Spenser. 3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable. That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it. --Shak. Syn: Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible. -- Pit"i*ful*ly, adv. -- Pit"i*ful*ness, n.From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
pitiful adj 1: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable] 2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry] 3: deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched]From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful Αγγλικά a. 1 που προκαλεί τη συμπόνια των άλλων, αξιοθρήνητος 2 αξιοθρήνητος, ελάχιστοςFrom English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful a. 1 (lb en now rare) Feeling pity; merciful. 2 So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. 3 Of an amount or number: very small. adv. (lb en colloquial dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful a. 1 (lb en now rare) Feeling pity; merciful. 2 So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. 3 Of an amount or number: very small. adv. (lb en colloquial dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful a. 1 (lb en now rare) Feeling pity; merciful. 2 So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. 3 Of an amount or number: very small. adv. (lb en colloquial dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful a. 1 (lb en now rare) Feeling pity; merciful. 2 So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. 3 Of an amount or number: very small. adv. (lb en colloquial dialect) In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful Englanti a. 1 säälittävä 2 hyvin pieniFrom Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
pitiful Engelska a. ömkansvärd, ynkligFrom English-Afrikaans FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-afr ]
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ beklaaglik, beklaenswaardig, beklagenswaardigFrom English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ تافهFrom English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
pitiful //ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩//From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]1. нищожен of an amount or number: very small 2. жалък, клет so appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]žalostný
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ soucitnýFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ beklagenswert, erbarmenswert, erbarmungswürdig, erbärmlich, jämmerlich, bemitleidenswertFrom English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]"a pitiful sight" - ein erbärmblicher Anblick "be in a pitiful state" - in einem erbärmlichen/jämmerlichen Zustand sein Synonyms: deplorable, pitiable, pathetic, woeful
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ erbärmlich, jämmerlich, kläglich, miserabel, beelendendFrom English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 : [ freedict:eng-ell ][Schw.] "a pitiful attempt to impress us" - ein kläglicher Versuch, uns zu beeindrucken Synonyms: lamentable, dismal
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ αξιολύπητος, οικτρόςFrom English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
pitiful //ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩//From English-French FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.6 : [ freedict:eng-fra ]säälittävä 2. of an amount or number: very small 3. so appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it
pitiful /pitifəl/ malheureux, misérable, pauvreFrom English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]1. दयनीय "The sight of that buffalo is pitiful."
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ bezvrijedan, ništavan, sažaljivFrom English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ 1. alávaló 2. szánakozó 3. szánalomra méltó 4. könyörületes 5. megindító 6. megvetendôFrom English-Bahasa Indonesia FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-ind ]
pitiful //ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩//From English-日本語 (にほんご) FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-jpn ]kasihan
pitiful //ˈpɪt.ɪ.fl̩//From English-Lithuanian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.7.2 : [ freedict:eng-lit ]可憐 so appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it
pitiful /pitifəl/ 1. niekingas, sukeliąs pasigailėjimą See also: lamentable See also: deplorable 2. gailestingas, gailiaširdisFrom English-Dutch FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-nld ]
pitiful /pitifəl/ beklagenswaardig, erbarmelijk, zieligFrom English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
pitiful /ˈpɪtɪfʊl/From English-Portuguese FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-por ]żałosny
pitiful /pitifəl/ coitado, lastimávelFrom English-Spanish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 : [ freedict:eng-spa ]
pitiful /pitifəl/ deplorableFrom English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
pitiful /pˈɪtifəl/ 1. merhamet uyandıran, acınacak halde olan 2. değersiz, aşağılık. pitifully merhamet uyandırarak. pitifulness acınacak hal.From IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈpɪtəfəɫ/
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "pitiful": abominable, affecting, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, doleful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartrending, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insignificant, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, mean, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unclean, unimportant, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretchedFrom Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 慈悲的,可怜的,同情的;From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 慈悲的,可怜的,同情的