What is another word for pitiful?
450 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ pˈɪtifə͡l], [ pˈɪtifəl], [ p_ˈɪ_t_i_f_əl]
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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
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- dismal,
- wretched,
- beggarly,
- sad,
- inadequate,
- touching,
- moving,
- suffering,
- pitiable,
- miserable,
- abject,
- worthless,
- sorrowful,
- vile,
- insignificant,
- Arousing,
- low,
- cheap.
- 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.
- 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.
- heart right place,
- most feeling,
- more forgiving,
- more pardoning,
- more feeling,
- most pardoning,
- softhearted.
- 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.
- in considerable,
- more derisory,
- un-consequential,
- more unconsequential,
- most derisory,
- in-considerable,
- un consequential,
- most unconsequential.
- more beseeching,
- more imploring,
- most supplicating,
- more supplicating,
- most beseeching,
- more entreating,
- most imploring,
- most entreating.
- more bellyaching,
- most saddening,
- out sorts,
- most beefing,
- most bellyaching,
- wailing,
- most wailing,
- more wailing,
- more grousing,
- more saddening,
- most grousing,
- more beefing.
- dis composing,
- most dejecting,
- most disheartening,
- more dejecting,
- more discomposing,
- de pressing,
- most discomposing,
- dis-heartening,
- dis heartening,
- dis-composing,
- more disheartening,
- de-pressing.
- 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.
n.
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- disgraceful.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- 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.
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•
- compassionate,
- skimpy,
- overstretched,
- inadequacy,
- insufficiency,
- appalling,
- terrible,
- diabolical,
- deficit,
- deprivation,
- pitying,
- atrocious.
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•
- unsatisfied,
- weak,
- third class.
How to use "Pitiful" in context?
When one thinks of the word "pitiful," images of someone who is frail, weak and sad come to mind. It's hard to imagine anything more depressing than feeling pitiful, but it can happen to anyone. Whether it's because of a chronic illness or the aftermath of a traumatic event, feeling pitiful can be a regular part of life for some people.
It can be difficult to keep your spirits up when you're living in a state of constant pity, but it's important to remember that everyone feels their own version of pity at different times.
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Equivalence
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Adjective
deplorable, lamentable, pitiable.
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Noun, singular or mass
lamentable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
appalling, depressing, dire, disappointing, disastrous, disgraceful, dismal, dreadful, lame, measly, parlous, poor, ridiculous, shameful, sorry, terrible, unhappy, wretched.
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Other Related
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Adjective
beggarly, contemptible, derisory, despicable, distressing, lousy, painful, paltry, regretful, regrettable, sorrowful, tragic, unfortunate, woeful.
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Noun, singular or mass
regrettable.
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Adjective
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