adjective (formal)
1 deserving pity or causing you to feel pity:
The refugees were in a pitiable state.
2 not deserving respect:
a pitiable lack of talent
pitiably adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pitiable is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does pitiable appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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