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pitiful adjective [ ˈpɪtɪfʊl ]

• deserving or arousing pity.
• "two children in a very pitiful state"
Similar: distressing, sad, piteous, to be pitied, pitiable, pathetic, disturbing, heart-rending, heartbreaking, saddening, moving, affecting, touching, tear-jerking, plaintive, poignant, forlorn, poor, sorry, wretched, abject, miserable, tragic, woeful, lamentable, grievous, distressful,
• very small or poor; inadequate.
• "a pitiful attempt to impress her"
Similar: paltry, miserable, meagre, beggarly, insufficient, insignificant, trifling, negligible, pitiable, derisory, pathetic, measly, piddling, piffling, mingy, poxy, dinky, dreadful, awful, terrible, lamentable, hopeless, wretched, sorry, poor, bad, feeble, well below par, woeful, inadequate, contemptible, deplorable, despicable, laughable, worthless, useless, rotten, appalling, lousy, abysmal, dire, the pits, chronic, pants, a load of pants,


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