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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
abominable, affecting, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, doleful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartrending, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insignificant, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, mean, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unclean, unimportant, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched
Dictionary Results for pitiful:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
pitiful
    adj 1: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were
           pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful
           exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic, pitiable,
           pitiful]
    2: bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state";
       "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a
       sorry state of affairs" [syn: deplorable, distressing,
       lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry]
    3: 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" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate,
       pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
       wretched]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Pitiful \Pit"i*ful\, a.
   1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind;
      merciful; sympathetic.
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            The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
                                                  --James v. 11.
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   2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
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            A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.
                                                  --Spenser.
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   3. To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable;
      paltry; contemptible; despicable.
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            That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition
            in the fool that uses it.             --Shak.
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   Syn: Despicable; mean; paltry. See Contemptible.
        [1913 Webster] -- Pit"i*ful*ly, adv. --
        Pit"i*ful*ness, n.
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3. The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906)
PITIFUL, adj.  The state of an enemy of opponent after an imaginary
encounter with oneself.


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