Definition for Pitiful:

• bad; unfortunate; " my finances were in a deplorable state"; " a lamentable decision"; " her clothes were in sad shape"; " a sorry state of affairs"

Synonyms for Pitiful:

• adj.

  •despicable (adjective)
  • infamous.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • heartbreaking.
  •doleful (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • woebegone,
  • doleful,
  • painful.
  •humble (adjective)
  • trivial.
  •in bad shape; poor (adjective)
  • compassionate,
  • pitiable,
  • cheap,
  • insignificant,
  • scurvy,
  • beggarly,
  • sorry,
  • dismal,
  • pathetic,
  • piteous,
  • cheerless,
  • heartbreaking,
  • wretched,
  • moving,
  • inadequate,
  • comfortless,
  • low,
  • mournful,
  • paltry,
  • shabby,
  • stirring,
  • distressed,
  • suffering,
  • abject,
  • heartrending,
  • joyless,
  • tearful,
  • sad,
  • deplorable,
  • base,
  • grievous,
  • contemptible,
  • miserable,
  • commiserative,
  • despicable,
  • mean,
  • touching,
  • worthless,
  • woeful,
  • affecting,
  • sorrowful,
  • lamentable,
  • distressing,
  • vile,
  • afflicted,
  • Arousing.
  •mean (adjective)
  • second-rate.
  •moving (adjective)
  • affecting.
  •pitiful (adjective)
  • miserable,
  • piteous,
  • heart-rending,
  • rueful,
  • forlorn,
  • lamentable,
  • tear-jerking,
  • pitiable,
  • pathetic.
  •poor (adjective)
  • niggardly.
  •tearful (adjective)
  • tearful,
  • teary.
  •touching (adjective)
  • tender,
  • touching,
  • poignant.

• adv.

  •lowly (adverb)
  • humble.

• n.

  •
  • dire,
  • embarrassing,
  • low-grade,
  • second-rate,
  • disgraceful.
  •
  • painful,
  • rueful,
  • upsetting,
  • ruthful,
  • terrible,
  • pity,
  • unhappy,
  • tragic.
  •
  • feelings,
  • only,
  • few,
  • commiserative,
  • pitying,
  • sympathetic,
  • little,
  • minimum,
  • scant,
  • compassionate,
  • Condolatory,
  • barely,
  • mere,
  • slight,
  • sparse.
  •affecting (noun)
  • cheerless,
  • heartbreaking,
  • distressed,
  • comfortless,
  • stirring,
  • dramatic,
  • human,
  • joyless,
  • poignant,
  • tearful,
  • depressing,
  • affecting,
  • afflicted.
  •pitiful (noun)
  • distressing,
  • pathetic,
  • pitiable,
  • deplorable,
  • piteous,
  • miserable,
  • sorry,
  • bad,
  • unfortunate,
  • contemptible,
  • poor,
  • hapless,
  • lamentable,
  • wretched,
  • sad,
  • misfortunate.

• v.

  •humble (verb)
  • small.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chronic,
  • crummy,
  • second-rate,
  • catastrophic,
  • scantily,
  • merciful,
  • puny,
  • insufficient,
  • ill,
  • Condolatory,
  • low-grade,
  • meager,
  • dearth,
  • shocking,
  • ruthful,
  • shoddy,
  • commiserative,
  • egregious,
  • subhuman,
  • bastardized,
  • dire,
  • short-handed,
  • shabby,
  • rotten,
  • embarrassing,
  • irreparable.
  •
  • pitying,
  • mean,
  • skimpy,
  • overstretched,
  • appalling,
  • deprivation,
  • compassionate,
  • insufficiency,
  • atrocious,
  • terrible.
  •
  • unsatisfied,
  • weak.
  •
  • off.
  •catastrophic
  • tragic.
  •cheerless
  • heartbreaking.
  •hideous
  • horrid.
  •melancholy
  • plaintive.
  •petty
  • trivial.
  •unfortunate
  • regrettable,
  • unfortunate.
  •Other relevant words:
  • minimum,
  • foetid,
  • grievous,
  • feelings,
  • disaster,
  • humane,
  • heart-breaking,
  • decayed,
  • pity,
  • worthless,
  • woeful,
  • obnoxious,
  • culpable,
  • ill-fated,
  • crummy,
  • merciful,
  • notorious,
  • scummy,
  • agonizing,
  • despondent,
  • unbecoming,
  • egregious,
  • common,
  • affecting,
  • monstrous,
  • loathsome,
  • good-for-naught,
  • beneath one,
  • wan,
  • worrisome,
  • ignominious,
  • compassionate,
  • jinxed,
  • hapless,
  • inconsolable,
  • inconsequential,
  • mickey mouse,
  • blameworthy,
  • grim,
  • drear,
  • drab,
  • poor,
  • ineffectual,
  • teary,
  • dolorous,
  • terrible,
  • emotion,
  • skimpy,
  • Haggish,
  • few,
  • touching,
  • sparse,
  • scandalous,
  • stark,
  • outrageous,
  • catastrophic,
  • degrading,
  • twopenny,
  • disconsolate,
  • noisome,
  • execrable,
  • meritless,
  • Condolatory,
  • ill,
  • unimportant,
  • injured,
  • distressing,
  • fulsome,
  • opprobrious,
  • short,
  • rotten,
  • touchingly,
  • scabby,
  • demeaning,
  • sorrowful,
  • hateful,
  • unlucky,
  • despised,
  • contempt,
  • ridiculous,
  • mood,
  • bitter,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • insignificant,
  • emotive,
  • Scrannel,
  • small,
  • offensive,
  • melancholy,
  • parched,
  • feeble,
  • tearful,
  • poor man,
  • sad,
  • unworthy,
  • little,
  • mediocre,
  • irreparable,
  • beastly,
  • atrocious,
  • Pathetical,
  • disturbing,
  • distressful,
  • gutter,
  • cheap,
  • emotional,
  • short-handed,
  • hunch,
  • dishonorable,
  • poignant,
  • calamity,
  • unclean,
  • only,
  • contemptible,
  • sentiment,
  • not worth mentioning,
  • infra indignitatem,
  • shabby,
  • trashy,
  • slimy,
  • intolerable,
  • unfortunate,
  • regrettable,
  • vain,
  • misfortunate,
  • sordid,
  • tragical,
  • comfortless,
  • undeserving,
  • doleful,
  • worst,
  • reprehensible,
  • remorseful,
  • cheerless,
  • lachrymose,
  • twopenny-halfpenny,
  • no-account,
  • horrible,
  • dreadful,
  • overstretched,
  • lean,
  • mean,
  • abject,
  • plaintive,
  • heinous,
  • squalid,
  • excruciating,
  • dirty,
  • misfortune,
  • pathetically,
  • lame,
  • down,
  • wretchedly,
  • blue,
  • base,
  • rubbishy,
  • commiserative,
  • pitying,
  • piteously,
  • humble,
  • atmosphere,
  • depressed,
  • regretful,
  • paltry,
  • wretch,
  • sympathetic,
  • second-rate,
  • niggardly,
  • trifling,
  • hopeless,
  • sensitivity,
  • downtrodden,
  • lost,
  • unhappy,
  • appalling,
  • tender,
  • subhuman,
  • dingy,
  • joyless,
  • tragic,
  • piddling,
  • soul-stirring,
  • awful,
  • weary,
  • nasty,
  • flagrant,
  • sense,
  • inconsiderable,
  • passion,
  • villainous,
  • crushing,
  • criminal,
  • stirring,
  • brutal,
  • mingy,
  • painful,
  • woebegone,
  • below par,
  • exceptionable,
  • rubber,
  • distressed,
  • kind,
  • frail,
  • mournful,
  • slight,
  • deprivation,
  • scrubby,
  • scant,
  • perturbing,
  • dearth,
  • mere,
  • enormous,
  • feeling,
  • valueless,
  • foul,
  • troubling,
  • rank,
  • sadly,
  • scurvy,
  • affective,
  • dispirited,
  • dire,
  • human,
  • embarrassing,
  • impression,
  • belief,
  • trumpery,
  • inadequate,
  • fetid,
  • abominable,
  • funereal,
  • ghastly,
  • glum,
  • opinion,
  • shoddy,
  • affection,
  • shocking,
  • scantily,
  • ruthful,
  • scruffy,
  • imperfect,
  • disgraceful,
  • penny ante,
  • no-good,
  • worrying,
  • low,
  • heartrending,
  • barely,
  • gross,
  • enthusiasm,
  • arrant,
  • poor person,
  • low-down,
  • morose,
  • lousy,
  • Ill-conditioned,
  • depressing,
  • heartbreaking,
  • dark,
  • filthy,
  • no-count,
  • infra dig,
  • vile,
  • condemnable,
  • rascal,
  • pitifully,
  • chronic,
  • unsatisfied,
  • infamous,
  • bastardized,
  • meagre,
  • vicious,
  • tragedy,
  • detestable,
  • moving,
  • wretched,
  • contrite,
  • one-horse,
  • Star-crossed,
  • repulsive,
  • off,
  • gaudy,
  • low-grade,
  • nefarious,
  • Putid,
  • insufficiency,
  • humiliating,
  • Deteriorated,
  • catastrophe,
  • debasing,
  • intuition,
  • crap,
  • cheesy,
  • tatty,
  • afflicted,
  • puny,
  • ugly,
  • weedy,
  • hollow,
  • horrid,
  • weak,
  • gimcrack,
  • insufficient,
  • have mercy on,
  • excitement,
  • despicable,
  • shameful,
  • silly,
  • touched,
  • luckless,
  • impossible,
  • Unenvied,
  • too bad,
  • sneaking,
  • desolate,
  • deplorable,
  • ill-omened,
  • bad,
  • meager,
  • catchpenny,
  • sorry,
  • lugubrious,
  • hardscrabble,
  • low-spirited,
  • grave,
  • inauspicious,
  • dejected,
  • Woful,
  • ill-starred,
  • cruddy,
  • disgusting,
  • useless,
  • unworthy of one,
  • rueful,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • upsetting,
  • dismal,
  • disastrous,
  • suffering,
  • odious,
  • scuzzy,
  • dramatic,
  • calamitous,
  • schlock,
  • petty,
  • meretricious,
  • gloomy,
  • measly,
  • Arousing,
  • beggarly,
  • dreary,
  • trivial.

Antonyms for Pitiful:

• adj.

  • in bad shape; poor
    good, cheerful, joyful, superior, wonderful, significant, wealthy, nice, important, lucky, superb, glad, fortunate, excellent, hopeful, substantial, rich, worthwhile, happy.
  • Other antonyms:
    dignified, great, lofty, commanding, helpful, glorious, sublime, august, superb, beneficent, mighty, estimable, exalted, superior, noble, grand.