pittyful

Adjective

pitiful (comparative pitifuller, superlative pitifullest)

1. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
   • Scotland has a pitiful climate.

   Synonyms:

   piteous, pitisome, ruthful

2. Eliciting contempt.
3. Of an amount or number: very small.
   • A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.

   Synonyms:

   few, meager, paltry, scant, scanty, thin

4. (archaic) Feeling pity; merciful.
   • Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas...

   Synonyms:

   commiserative, clement, lenient, merciable, mercied, merciful, relentful, ruthful, safe, pitying

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