450 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ pˈɪtifə͡l], [ pˈɪtifə‍l], [ p_ˈɪ_t_i_f_əl]

Similar words for pitiful:

• base (adjective)
• contemptible (adjective)
• despicable (adjective)
• doleful (adjective)
• forlorn (adjective)
• grievous (adjective)
• heartbreaking (adjective)
• heartrending (adjective)
• humble (adjective)
• in bad shape; poor (adjective)
• lamentable (adjective)
• lean (adjective)
• mean (adjective)
• measly (adjective)
• merciful (adjective)
• mournful (adjective)
• other relevant words (adjective)
• paltry (adjective)
• pathetic (adjective)
• piteous (adjective)
• pitiful (adjective)
• plaintive (adjective)
• poignant (adjective)
• poor (adjective)
• regrettable (adjective)
• sad (adjective)
• scrubby (adjective)
• shabby (adjective)
• small (adjective)
• tearful (adjective)
• touching (adjective)
• tragic (adjective)
• woeful (adjective)
• wretched (adjective)
• deplorable (noun)
• distressing (noun)
• hapless (noun)
• misfortunate (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pitiful (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• affecting
• hideous

Paraphrases for pitiful

Synonyms for Pitiful:

• adj.

  • base (adjective)
  • grovelling,
  • dis-reputable,
  • dis-honorable,
  • foul,
  • more grovelling,
  • un worthy,
  • dis graceful,
  • un worthiest,
  • un worthier,
  • dis reputable,
  • scandalous,
  • dis honorable,
  • menial,
  • un-worthiest,
  • un-worthy,
  • un-worthier,
  • in delicate,
  • most grovelling,
  • in-delicate,
  • dis-graceful.
  • contemptible (adjective)
  • de-testable,
  • heelest,
  • more despisable,
  • more currish,
  • de-generate,
  • most low down,
  • low down,
  • more lowdown,
  • most outcast,
  • outcast,
  • most lowdown,
  • most despisable,
  • more low-down,
  • scurviest,
  • most swinish,
  • most inferior,
  • more outcast,
  • scummiest,
  • most low-down,
  • more low down,
  • scurvier,
  • more swinish,
  • out cast,
  • dis-gusting,
  • out-cast,
  • heel,
  • scummy,
  • de testable,
  • dis gusting,
  • de generate.
  • despicable (adjective)
  • low-life,
  • no good,
  • infamous,
  • lowlife.
  • doleful (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • down in mouth,
  • Dolent,
  • cast down,
  • woebegone,
  • Dirgeful,
  • doleful.
  • forlorn (adjective)
  • be-reft,
  • down out,
  • de solate,
  • helpless,
  • in dumps,
  • un happy,
  • de stroyed,
  • de-stroyed,
  • in the dumps,
  • be reft,
  • un-happy,
  • forgotten,
  • de-solate,
  • un happier,
  • un happiest.
  • grievous (adjective)
  • in tolerable,
  • more heart-rending,
  • up-setting,
  • most heart-rending,
  • dis quieting,
  • more wounding,
  • un bearable,
  • un-bearable,
  • most wounding,
  • more afflicting,
  • in-tolerable,
  • up setting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • more heart rending,
  • most heart rending,
  • heart rending,
  • most afflicting.
  • heartbreaking (adjective)
  • un fortunate,
  • un-fortunate.
  • heartrending (adjective)
  • heartsickening.
  • humble (adjective)
  • Low-born,
  • unpretentious,
  • proletarian,
  • trivial,
  • unassuming,
  • low-ranking.
  • in bad shape; poor (adjective)
  • dismal,
  • wretched,
  • beggarly,
  • sad,
  • inadequate,
  • touching,
  • moving,
  • suffering,
  • pitiable,
  • miserable,
  • abject,
  • worthless,
  • sorrowful,
  • vile,
  • insignificant,
  • Arousing,
  • low,
  • cheap.
  • lamentable (adjective)
  • more god-awful,
  • most hurting,
  • most god-awful,
  • more hurting,
  • un-satisfactory,
  • most godawful,
  • un favorable,
  • un satisfactory,
  • un-favorable,
  • more godawful,
  • most god awful,
  • god awful,
  • more god awful.
  • lean (adjective)
  • in fertile,
  • most shadow,
  • stilt,
  • stiltest,
  • un productive,
  • most sylphlike,
  • scraggier,
  • lean,
  • in adequate,
  • more shadow,
  • in-adequate,
  • more sylphlike,
  • in-fertile,
  • un-fruitful,
  • stilter,
  • un fruitful,
  • more beanpole,
  • un-productive,
  • most beanpole,
  • stickest,
  • gangling.
  • mean (adjective)
  • second rate,
  • down at heel,
  • down-at-heel,
  • lowborn,
  • secondrate,
  • second class,
  • second-class.
  • measly (adjective)
  • un generous,
  • un-generous,
  • piddling.
  • merciful (adjective)
  • heart right place,
  • most feeling,
  • more forgiving,
  • more pardoning,
  • more feeling,
  • most pardoning,
  • softhearted.
  • mournful (adjective)
  • sombrest,
  • most anguished,
  • full sorrow,
  • grief stricken,
  • more anguished,
  • sombrer.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • lamentable,
  • wornout,
  • no fat,
  • heart-rending,
  • Despisable,
  • in the pits,
  • piteous,
  • scummier,
  • Bummed,
  • poignant,
  • sorry,
  • grievous,
  • in mourning,
  • tragic,
  • dog-eared,
  • poor,
  • griefstricken,
  • shabby,
  • scurvy,
  • woeful,
  • tatty,
  • god-awful,
  • lowdown,
  • contemptible,
  • forlorn,
  • in sorrow,
  • sombre,
  • scraggiest,
  • grousing,
  • pathetic,
  • measly,
  • godawful,
  • paltry,
  • Unconsequential,
  • Commiserable,
  • heartrending,
  • in pain,
  • beefing,
  • sticker,
  • swinish,
  • all heart,
  • sylphlike,
  • small,
  • scraggy,
  • currish,
  • down and out,
  • despicable,
  • worse for wear,
  • gone to seed,
  • Heeler,
  • base,
  • anguished,
  • full of sorrow,
  • low-down,
  • plaintive,
  • derisory,
  • mean,
  • regrettable,
  • mournful,
  • merciful,
  • heart in right place,
  • scrubby,
  • humble.
  • paltry (adjective)
  • in considerable,
  • more derisory,
  • un-consequential,
  • more unconsequential,
  • most derisory,
  • in-considerable,
  • un consequential,
  • most unconsequential.
  • pathetic (adjective)
  • more commiserable,
  • most commiserable.
  • piteous (adjective)
  • more beseeching,
  • more imploring,
  • most supplicating,
  • more supplicating,
  • most beseeching,
  • more entreating,
  • most imploring,
  • most entreating.
  • pitiful (adjective)
  • tear-jerking.
  • plaintive (adjective)
  • more bellyaching,
  • most saddening,
  • out sorts,
  • most beefing,
  • most bellyaching,
  • wailing,
  • most wailing,
  • more wailing,
  • more grousing,
  • more saddening,
  • most grousing,
  • more beefing.
  • poignant (adjective)
  • in tenser,
  • most agitating,
  • more agitating,
  • in-tenser,
  • in-tense,
  • in-tensest,
  • in tense.
  • poor (adjective)
  • poorer,
  • SUBPAR.,
  • subnormal,
  • niggardly.
  • regrettable (adjective)
  • dis-appointing,
  • illadvised,
  • dis appointing.
  • sad (adjective)
  • dis composing,
  • most dejecting,
  • most disheartening,
  • more dejecting,
  • more discomposing,
  • de pressing,
  • most discomposing,
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis heartening,
  • dis-composing,
  • more disheartening,
  • de-pressing.
  • scrubby (adjective)
  • all the worse for wear,
  • poter,
  • Curer,
  • broken down.
  • shabby (adjective)
  • de-generated,
  • most degenerated,
  • more frayed,
  • de generated,
  • most dog eared,
  • dis figured,
  • most deteriorating,
  • dog eared,
  • most disfigured,
  • dis-figured,
  • motheaten,
  • more deteriorating,
  • more dog eared,
  • most dogeared,
  • gone seed,
  • more dog-eared,
  • rickety,
  • more dogeared,
  • be-draggled,
  • be draggled,
  • most dog-eared,
  • povertystricken,
  • poverty stricken,
  • most frayed,
  • dogeared,
  • more degenerated,
  • more disfigured.
  • small (adjective)
  • shrimper,
  • shrimp,
  • small-scale,
  • under-sized,
  • bitty,
  • pocket-sized,
  • pint-sized,
  • runty,
  • mini,
  • Toyer.
  • tearful (adjective)
  • teary,
  • in tears,
  • blubbery.
  • touching (adjective)
  • tender.
  • tragic (adjective)
  • ill-starred,
  • ill starred,
  • more crushing,
  • most crushing,
  • illstarred.
  • woeful (adjective)
  • heartsick,
  • more agonized,
  • most tortured,
  • more racked,
  • more tortured,
  • Racked,
  • most racked,
  • most agonized.
  • wretched (adjective)
  • more bummed,
  • most bummed,
  • in pits.

• n.

  •
  • disgraceful.
  •
  • painful,
  • rueful,
  • unhappy,
  • upsetting,
  • pity.
  •
  • few,
  • barely,
  • mere,
  • slight,
  • scant,
  • sparse,
  • little,
  • minimum,
  • only,
  • feelings,
  • sympathetic.
  • deplorable (noun)
  • deplorable.
  • distressing (noun)
  • distressing.
  • hapless (noun)
  • hapless.
  • misfortunate (noun)
  • misfortunate.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • kind,
  • state,
  • behaviour.
  • pitiful (noun)
  • bad,
  • unfortunate.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • property.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • damning,
  • scantily,
  • meager,
  • dearth,
  • Condolatory,
  • deficient,
  • dire,
  • second-rate,
  • low-class,
  • catastrophic,
  • insufficient,
  • terribly,
  • commiserative,
  • egregious,
  • crummy,
  • ill,
  • poorly,
  • shocking,
  • chronic,
  • subhuman,
  • ruthful,
  • short-handed,
  • rotten,
  • puny,
  • bastardized,
  • low-grade,
  • dodgy,
  • irreparable,
  • abysmal,
  • embarrassing,
  • shoddy,
  • third-rate,
  • unspeakable.
  •
  • compassionate,
  • skimpy,
  • overstretched,
  • inadequacy,
  • insufficiency,
  • appalling,
  • terrible,
  • diabolical,
  • deficit,
  • deprivation,
  • pitying,
  • atrocious.
  •
  • unsatisfied,
  • weak,
  • third class.
  •
  • off,
  • tight.
  • affecting
  • dramatic,
  • cheerful,
  • human,
  • happy,
  • affecting,
  • heartbreaking,
  • afflicted,
  • cheerless,
  • distressed,
  • comfortless,
  • stirring,
  • depressing,
  • joyless,
  • tearful.
  • hideous
  • horrid.

Paraphrases for Pitiful:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    deplorable, lamentable, pitiable.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    lamentable.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    appalling, depressing, dire, disappointing, disastrous, disgraceful, dismal, dreadful, lame, measly, parlous, poor, ridiculous, shameful, sorry, terrible, unhappy, wretched.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    beggarly, contemptible, derisory, despicable, distressing, lousy, painful, paltry, regretful, regrettable, sorrowful, tragic, unfortunate, woeful.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    regrettable.