Pitiful is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PITIFUL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• arousing pity, also PITEOUS
• deserving or arousing pity
• compassionate.
• very small or poor; inadequate
• Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
• Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
• To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
• inspiring mixed contempt and pity
• bad; unfortunate
• deserving or inciting pity
• arousing pity

Words related to PITIFUL

pitifuller15 pitifullest16 pitifully17 pitifulness16

Words that contain PITIFUL

pitifully17 unpitiful14 pitifuller15 pitifullest16 pitifulness16 unpitifully19 pitifulnesses18 unpitifulness18 unpitifulnesses20

How to use PITIFUL in a sentence

• And our love was but a pitiful thing when compared with the love of these two, each for the other.
• Any nation that lacks guidance in these particulars is indeed weak and pitiful.
• This landlady was a terrible and pitiful person, so grey and dusty she was, and her face deep lined with dust and trouble and labour.
• Half dead, we landed by the grace of God and the aid of His pitiful mother, Notre Dame de Roc-Amadour.
• They found her dead on her sorry couch, and the boy sitting beside her, holding her hand, swinging and singing his pitiful lay more sorrowfully than he had ever done before.
• The sixteen-foot canoe dwarfed to pitiful dimensions in the face of that snarling line of wind-harried water.
• But as he read, the expression of hope which his face wore changed to one of pain pitiful to look upon.
• They had hardly won their pitiful victory, however, before a stern voice and a sword flashing before their eyes, compelled them to release their prisoner once more.
• We know his pitiful story and his errand before he speaks.
• The Hungarian Insurgents, whom we saw in 1797, 1805, and 1809, were pitiful troops.
• Then I went home and never spoke one word to her though she called after me dreadful kind of pitiful.
• She had never loved him, but it was pitiful that he could not have lived.
• She was a little late and could not stop though the child had looked very pitiful and rather pale.
• In her pitiful little world she lived, her best self dying for want of pure air with the oxygen of power in it.
• The show of hands and the written replies were pitiful.
• And it is possible also to make a guess at the treatment which would have been accorded to the pitiful tale if Thackeray had undertaken it.
• Such, he cried, is the pitiful and desperate condition of man.
• These plans had been set aside while the baby was taking his pitiful leave of life after his one smile, but Jude must hurry his case now.
• It was pitiful, this strong-minded woman reaching out for the things that less-endowed women accept without question.
• Pitiful! Most pitiful! And the man who dared to tell the truth must be prepared for any consequences.
• The beautiful and melancholy face of the young prisoner sitting behind iron bars that were like the cage of a wild beast had made a pitiful impression.
• It would be pitiful, but it would be glorious also.
• The pitiful thing about this book is that it is so thoroughly representative of the thing for which it pleads.
• The British and French, having received parcels, were in good condition, but the Russians, who had to depend entirely on the prison-fare, were a pitiful sight.
• The skill with which he handled his crude and awkward craft elicited my deepest admiration, since it had been so short a time before that I had made such pitiful work of it.
• For hours, from morning until evening, I heard the heart-rending wail rising and falling from that pitiful double being.
• Vincent so effectively for five days that the inhabitants sent off a pitiful appeal to Admiral Durham to send a frigate to their relief.
• Instead of seeking to push the coming generation ahead of our pitiful accomplishment, we insist that it march behind.

Similar words containing PITI without suffix ful

pitied9 pitier8 pities8 wapiti11 pitiers9 pitieth12 spiting10 wapitis12 bepitied13 bepities12 colpitis12 hospitia13 pitiable12 pitiably15 pitikins14 pitiless10 sopiting11 unpitied11 uppitier12 despiting13 hospitium16 outpitied12 outpities11 pitifully17 respiting12 unpitiful14 uppitiest13 colpitises14 pitifuller15 pitilessly15 precipitin16 propitiate14 propitious14 uppitiness14 pitifullest16 pitifulness16 precipitins17 propitiable17 propitiated16 propitiates15 propitiator15 stipitiform18 unpitifully19 pitiableness16 pitilessness14 propitiating17 propitiation16 propitiative19 propitiators16 propitiatory19 propitiously19 unpropitious16 uppitinesses16 pitifulnesses18 propitiations17 propitiatious17 serendipities16 serendipitist16 unpitifulness18 pitiablenesses18 pitilessnesses16 precipitinogen21 propitiatories18 propitiatorily21 propitiousness18 serendipitists17 unpropitiously21 precipitinogens22 unpitifulnesses20 propitiousnesse19 propitiousnesses20

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