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pitiful
01
bad; unfortunate
Grammatical Information
Composition
Simple
qualitative
Superlative
most pitiful
Comparative
more pitiful
gradable
02
deserving of sympathy or disappointment due to being in a poor and unsatisfactory condition
Examples
The stray dog's pitiful condition broke my heart.
Lexical Tree
pitifully
pitiful
pity
