Definitions for: Pitiable

[adj] inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
[adj] 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

Webster (1913) Definition: Pit"i*a*ble, a. [Cf. OF. pitiable, F. pitoyable.]
Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion;
miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a
pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

Syn: Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. --
Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv.

Synonyms: contemptible, hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiful, poor, unfortunate, wretched

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