pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
(adjective) inspiring mixed contempt and pity; “their efforts were pathetic”; “pitiable lack of character”; “pitiful exhibition of cowardice”
hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
(adjective) deserving or inciting pity; “a hapless victim”; “miserable victims of war”; “the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic”- Galsworthy; “piteous appeals for help”; “pitiable homeless children”; “a pitiful fate”; “Oh, you poor thing”; “his poor distorted limbs”; “a wretched life”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
pitiable (comparative more pitiable, superlative most pitiable)
That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
• See also lamentable
Source: Wiktionary
Pit"i*a*ble, a. Etym: [Cf. OF. pitiable, F. pitoyable.]
Definition: Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
Syn.
– Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous.
– Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n.
– Pit"i*a*bly, adv.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
