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Definitions of pitiable

  1. 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" Wordnet Dictionary DB
  2. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" Scrapingweb Dictionary DB
  3. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Webster Dictionary DB
  4. Deserving sympathy; as, he was in a pitiable condition; contemptible. The Winston Simplified Dictionary. By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer. Published 1919.
  5. Pitiably. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
  6. Deserving pity: affecting: wretched. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
  7. PITIABLENESS. The american dictionary of the english language. By Daniel Lyons. Published 1899.
  8. Deserving pity. The Clarendon dictionary. By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman. Published 1894.
  9. That may be pitied; pathetic; pitiful. The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language. By James Champlin Fernald. Published 1919.
  10. Deserving pity; miserable. Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language. By Nuttall, P.Austin. Published 1914.
  11. Deserving pity; lamentable; mournful. Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language. By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H. Published 1874.
  12. Calling for pity or contempt. Hence pitiableness n., pitiably adv. [old French] Concise Oxford Dictionary

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