Pitiful
['pɪtɪfʊl;-f(ə)l] or ['pɪtɪfəl]
Definition
(a.) Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
(a.) Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
(a.) To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Compassionate, tender, tender-hearted, sympathetic, kind, merciful, lenient, mild.[2]. Mean, base, vile, low, paltry, sorry, abject, rascally, contemptible, despicable, insignificant, worthless.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PITILESS]
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Unserious Contents or Definition
adj. The state of an enemy or opponent after an imaginary encounter with oneself.
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Examples
- Very little white satin, very few lace veils; a most pitiful business! Jane Austen. Emma.
- At times his voice broke, and he was forced to stop reading for the pitiful hopelessness that spoke between the lines. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Then, seizing Captain Dobbin's hand, and weeping in the most pitiful way, he confided to that gentleman the secret of his loves. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Miss Osborne, on the other hand, thought of old times and memories and could not but be touched with the poor mother's pitiful situation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She forced a pitiful smile that pinched her face instead of smoothing it. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A pitiful and plaintive look, with which she had begun to regard him when she was still extremely young, was perhaps a part of this discovery. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They must not do less than others, or she should be exposed to odious suspicions, and imagined capable of pitiful resentment. Jane Austen. Emma.
- She struck Archer, of a sudden, as a pathetic and even pitiful figure. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- There is something in the sound of Mr. _Edmund_ Bertram so formal, so pitiful, so younger-brother-like, that I detest it. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- By heavens it is pitiful, the bootless love of women for children in Vanity Fair. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But what shall we think of a governor playing such pitiful tricks, and imposing so grossly upon a poor ignorant boy! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Come, let me see the list of pitiful fellows who have been kept aloof by Lydia's folly. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- It was the pitiful sight of a man standing in the very focus of sorrow. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- She had been wearing a loose dressing-gown of purple silk, tied round her waiSt. She looked so small and childish and vulnerable, almost pitiful. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- How the deuce am I to keep up my position in the world upon such a pitiful pittance? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But what have I done to you, she continued in a more pitiful tone, that you should try and take him from me? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- But the chap ne'er stopped driving the plough, I'se warrant, for all he were pitiful about the daisy. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They are the sorriest beasts that breathe--the most abject--the most pitiful. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He lay gasping upon the floor of the chamber, his great eyes fastened upon me in what seemed a pitiful appeal for protection. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Plutarch tells of a pitiful scene that occurred at Philip's marriage to Cleopatra. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Bless yo'r sweet pitiful face! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The pursuit of Darius III soon came to a pitiful end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Why dun yo' stare at me wi' your great pitiful eyes? Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I never saw a sight so pitiful as this before! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He beat upon his great chest with his clenched fists, and then he fell upon the body of Kala and sobbed out the pitiful sorrowing of his lonely heart. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- There was a pitiful contraction of suffering upon her beautiful brows, although there was no other sign of consciousness remaining. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- But you're in a pitiful little minority: you've got no centre, no competition, no audience. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Until about the middle of the Nineteenth Century the survivor of an operation was an unsymmetrical, unique, and pitiful object. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But at this moment he suddenly saw himself as a pitiful rascal who was robbing two women of their savings. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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