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pitiful


adjective

  1. evoking or deserving pity: a pitiful fate.
  2. evoking or deserving contempt by smallness, poor quality, etc.: pitiful attempts.
  3. Archaic. full of pity; compassionate.

adjective

  1. arousing or deserving pity
  2. arousing or deserving contempt
  3. archaic full of pity or compassion

adj.c.1300, “merciful, compassionate” (implied in pitifully), from pity + -ful. Sense of “exciting or deserving pity” is from mid-15c.; that of “mean, wretched, contemptible” is 1580s. Related: Pitifulness.

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