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" Pitiful " is the fourth single released from Sick Puppies ' 2007 album Dressed Up as Life . This song talks about how useless someone thinks their life is, to the point where they feel like killing themselves. The person has been looking for a reason ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN sight ▪ She was a pitiful sight , still lying where she had fallen, too terrified to move an inch. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ John looked pitiful , his whole body weak with exhaustion. ▪ Margret looked so pitiful ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "merciful, compassionate" (implied in pitifully ), from pity + -ful . Sense of "exciting or deserving pity" is from mid-15c.; that of "mean, wretched, contemptible" is 1580s. Related: Pitifulness .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pitiful \Pit"i*ful\, a. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. --James v. 11. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. --Spenser. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [syn: pathetic , pitiable ] bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her ...
Usage examples of pitiful.
His wounded antics, ranging from pitiful entreaties to furious ridicule, had forced her to quit her job.
Rue des Saints-Peres and the Rue du Sepulcre, close by the cross-roads of the Croix-Rouge, where the troops could arrive from so many different points, the Mairie of the Tenth Arrondissement, confined, commanded, and blockaded on every side, was a pitiful citadel for the assailed National Representation.
His medical care is computerized and automated, as is the pitiful education he wants.
The barghest casually tossed Bartholemew and his pitiful weapon across the kitchen and stalked over to the old man.
Slowly I swung it back and forth in the air before me, as if by such a pitiful act I could ward off the maledictions she hurled at me.
I told him then what I thought of him, giving vent to all the accumulated irritation of the past few days: he was, I said, a pitiful mediocrity, a mindless, unimaginative hanger-on, without the seed of an original idea.
Many of the crowded family degenerated, moved across the valley, and merged with the mongrel population which was later to produce the pitiful squatters.
No longer was he required to be hopeless Penner, bankrupt Penner, pitiful, pussy-whipped Penner.
He borrowed some of the most pitiful traits from reality, and recomposed them into a regular nightmare.
To Yasmela, standing white and speechless at the door of her tent, the host seemed a pitiful handful in comparison to the thronging desert horde.
Falling foul of such an unposted hazard would be all the more regrettable, pitiful or even tragic, because the suffering arising from it is needless, and yet, this is simply our lot in life.
Only a few lifetubes had shot out, carrying a pitiful handful of survivors.
A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.
By 1880, Chinese immigrants, brought in by the railroads to do the backbreaking labor at pitiful wages, numbered 75,000 in California, almost one-tenth of the population.
Yet she could not believe he was really one of the unfocused pitiful human beings who could never learn any biocontrol at all.