PITIABLE

pitiable. Pitiable, a. deserving pity, mournful, wretched

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Pit″i‐a‐ble (?), a. [[Cf. OF. pitiable, F. pitoyable.]] 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.