pitifuladjective
uk/ˈpɪt.i.fəl/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.fəl/making people feel sympathy:
The refugees arriving at the camp had pitiful stories to tell.
C2 used to say that you consider something to be very bad or not satisfactory or not enough:
a pitiful state of affairs
The amount of time and money being spent on researching this disease is pitiful.
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Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- fellow feeling
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- solace
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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Useless and futile
pitifully
adverb uk/ˈpɪt.i.fəl.i/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.fəl.i/
pitifulness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈpɪt.i.fəl.nəs/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.fəl.nəs/