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Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

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  1. a. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.
  2. adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity
  3. adj. deserving or inciting pity
  4. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Syn. -- Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. -- Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv.
  5. Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable;lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition;pitiable wretchedness.
  6. j:100 s inspiring mixed contempt and pity s deserving or inciting pity