LekhoriLekhoriSo appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Scotland has a pitiful climate.
Of an amount or number: very small.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
Feeling pity; merciful.
Some ſay that Rauens foſter forlorne children, / The vvhilſt their ovvne birds famiſh in their neſts: / Oh be to me though thy hard hart ſay no, / Nothing ſo kinde but ſomething pittifull.
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
‘She followed ’em, cryin’ pitiful, to the old boat on the Wall[.]’
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
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