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pitifulness Definition


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pitiful
adj
    1. Arousing pity; wretched or pathetic.
      Example: His clothes were in a pitiful state
      Thesaurus: lamentable, pathetic, piteous, touching, poignant, heartbreaking, moving, distressing, sorrowful, miserable, comfortless, cheerless.
    2. Sadly inadequate or ineffective.
      Example: a pitiful attempt to be funny
      Thesaurus: paltry, measly, inadequate, mean, base, low, wretched, pathetic.
Derivative: pitifully
adverb
    Derivative: pitifulness
    noun
      Etymology: 15c; 16c in sense 2.



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