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1. pitiful
adjective. ['ˈpɪtəfəl'] inspiring mixed contempt and pity.
Synonyms
- pathetic
- contemptible
Antonyms
- ample
- superior
- happy
Etymology
- -ful (English)
- pity (English)
- pité (Anglo-Norman)
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Rhymes with Pitiful
- apfel
- apocryphal
- awful
- awful
- baffle
- baleful
- bashful
- beautiful
- biffle
- blissful
- boastful
- bountiful
- bountiful
- careful
- cheerful
- coffel
- colorful
- cranfill
- deceitful
- deceitful
Sentences with pitiful
1. Adjective
Sectioning it off means less work for you and fewer pitiful meows from your kitty.
Quotes about pitiful
1. Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.
- Tim O'Brien
2. They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to be our superior. There is but one greater than us, and to him... to him we no longer speak.
- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists
3. I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
- John Derbyshire, Fire from the Sun
2. pitiful
adjective. ['ˈpɪtəfəl'] bad; unfortunate.
Synonyms
- sad
- lamentable
- sorry
- deplorable
- distressing
Antonyms
- successful
- auspicious
- inauspiciousness
- unpropitiousness
Etymology
- -ful (English)
- pity (English)
- pité (Anglo-Norman)
3. pitiful
adjective. ['ˈpɪtəfəl'] deserving or inciting pity.
Synonyms
- unfortunate
- hapless
- pitiable
- wretched
- piteous
- poor
- pathetic
- misfortunate
Antonyms
- comfortable
- achiever
- privileged
- lucky
Etymology
- -ful (English)
- pity (English)
- pité (Anglo-Norman)