pitiable
/ˈpɪti.əbəl/
pitiable adjective: that deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
Adjective
pitiable (comparative more pitiable, superlative most pitiable)
- That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
- Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “Church”, in Adam Bede […], volume II, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book second, page 20
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful. It was not the faintness of physical weakness, though confinement and hard fare no doubt had their part in it. Its deplorable peculiarity was, that it was the faintness of solitude and disuse. It was like the last feeble echo of a sound made...1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities
- Synonyms:
- piteous, pitisome, ruthful, compassionate, pathetic, pathetisad, pitiful, sad, poor, rueful
pitiable meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
pitiable in Hindi
- that deserves, evokes or can be given pity
- दयनीय daynīya
pitiable in Urdu
- دکھیا, زبوں
pitiable in Malayalam
- അനുകമ്പാർഹമായ, ദയനീയമായ, വെറുക്കത്തക്ക
pitiable in Kannada
- ಮರುಕ ಹುಟ್ಟಿಸುವ, ದಯನೀಯ, ಕರುಣಾಜನಕ, ಶೋಚನೀಯ, ಕನಿಕರಿಸತಕ್ಕ
Examples of pitiable in a sentence
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities:
- Fatigued by riding on horseback, bedevilled and begrimed by the ride on manback, he presented a pitiable spectacle, and went on his way to Naples in sad plight.1891, Daniel Ammen, The Old Navy and the New, page 205:
Synonyms of pitiable
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Forms of pitiable
| comparative | more pitiable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most pitiable |
Origin of pitiable
From Middle French [Term?], from Old French piteable. By surface analysis, pity + -able.
Words formed from pitiable
Questions about pitiable
- What does pitiable mean?
- Pitiable means that deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
- What is pitiable in Hindi?
- Pitiable in Hindi is दयनीय (daynīya). See Pitiable meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use pitiable in a sentence?
- The faintness of the voice was pitiable and dreadful.
- What part of speech is pitiable?
- Pitiable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce pitiable?
- Pitiable is pronounced /ˈpɪti.əbəl/.
Words near pitiable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: pitiable (page history and authors); pitiable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pitiable (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pitiable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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