pitiful
adjEtymology
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
- inherited from pityful
Definitions
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
- Scotland has a pitiful climate.
Eliciting contempt.
Of an amount or number
Of an amount or number: very small.
- A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
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Feeling pity
Feeling pity; merciful.
- Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
- Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful.
In a pitiful manner
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
- ‘She followed ’em, cryin’ pitiful, to the old boat on the Wall[.]’
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- synonymcompassionate
- synonympathetic
- synonympathetisad
- synonympiteous
- synonympitiable
- synonympitiful
- synonympitisome
- synonympoor
- synonymrueful
- synonymruthful
- synonymsnivelly
- synonymsorry-ass
- antonymnonpathetic
- antonymun-pathetic
- antonymunpiteous
- antonymunpitiable
- antonymunrueful
- neighborpitiable
- neighborpity
- neighborpitying
- neighborregretful
- neighborlamentable
- neighborsympathetic
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pitiful. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pitiful. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at pitiful
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA