1 deserving or causing you to feel pity:
The horse was a pitiful sight (= because it was very thin or sick).
2 not deserving respect:
a pitiful effort / excuse / performance
pitifully adverb:
The dog was whining pitifully. * She was pitifully thin. * The fee is pitifully low.
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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 pitiful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pitiful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pitiful is tagged as adjective.
Does pitiful appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — pitiful appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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