What is another word for pitiful?
383 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ pˈɪtifə͡l], [ pˈɪtifəl], [ p_ˈɪ_t_i_f_əl]Table of Contents
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)
- 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)
- pitiful (noun)
- 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.
- 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.
-
•
- disgraceful.
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.
Paraphrases for Pitiful:
Paraphrases are highlighted according to their relevancy:
- highest relevancy
- medium relevancy
- lowest relevancy
-
Equivalence
-
Adjective
pitiable, deplorable, lamentable.
-
Noun, singular or mass
lamentable.
-
Adjective
-
Independent
-
Adjective
wretched, disgraceful, appalling, dreadful, depressing, dismal, terrible, lame, disappointing, poor, dire, shameful, sorry, measly, unhappy, parlous, disastrous, ridiculous.
-
Adjective
-
Other Related
-
Adjective
woeful, unfortunate, despicable, sorrowful, painful, distressing, paltry, lousy, derisory, regrettable, regretful, beggarly, tragic, contemptible.
-
Noun, singular or mass
regrettable.
-
Adjective
Antonyms for Pitiful:
-
adj.
