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adjective
- 1. deserving or arousing pity.
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Pitiable means deserving or exciting pity, or of a kind to evoke mixed pity and contempt. See synonyms, antonyms, examples, word history and more from the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
Pitiable means feeling or deserving pity, or causing pity in others. It is a formal adjective that can be used to describe people or situations. See synonyms, related words and phrases, and examples from the Cambridge English Corpus and the Hansard archive.
Pitiable means arousing or deserving of one's loathing, pity, or scorn. Find 134 similar and opposite words for pitiable, with definitions, examples, and synonym chooser.
Pitiable means evoking or deserving pity, or contemptuous pity. Learn the origin, synonyms, and usage of pitiable with examples from literature and media.
Pitiable means feeling or deserving pity, or causing pity in others. It is a formal adjective that can be used to describe someone or something in a bad situation. See synonyms, examples, and translations of pitiable.
Learn the meaning, pronunciation and usage of the adjective pitiable, which means deserving pity or causing you to feel pity. See examples, synonyms and word family of pitiable.
Pitiable describes something that's pathetic or miserable. After learning about the pitiable conditions of schools in parts of rural India, you might decide to donate supplies to them.
