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Definition of Pitiable
1. Adjective. Inspiring mixed contempt and pity. "Pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
2. Adjective. Deserving or inciting pity. "A wretched life"
Similar to: Unfortunate
Derivative terms: Miserableness, Pathos, Pity, Pity, Wretchedness
Definition of Pitiable
1. a. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
Definition of Pitiable
1. Adjective. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity, pitiful. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pitiable
1. pitiful [adj] : PITIABLY [adv] - See also: pitiful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitiable
Literary usage of Pitiable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Explained: In Alphabetical Order ; with Copious by George Crabb (1883)
"pitiable, PITEOUS, PITIFUL. ... is pitiable which is so distressing as to eall
forth pity ; a cry is jalima which indicates such ... him pitiable ; what is ..."
2. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"In this pitiable case of involuntary crime, the legislature, by directing the
execution immediately to follow the sentence, shuts out the possibility of ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"... the still breathless wanderer into the guest chamber, where they attended to
his pitiable state, and then begged him to relate what had befallen him. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... Albert of Prussia (qv ; 1525- 1568); but by his time the pitiable remnant of
the knights had been almost entirely absorbed by the Germanic colonization. ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... that whenever afterwards he heard the boom of distant artillery practice,
mistaking it for thunder, he became a pitiable object to look at, and, ..."
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