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What is the adjective for pitie?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb pity which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pitiful
  1. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
  2. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
  3. Of an amount or number: very small.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. sad, heartbreaking, wretched, miserable, pathetic, distressing, woeful, sorry, tragic, pitiable, piteous, heartrending, harrowing, poor, lamentable, dismal, sorrowful, unfortunate, poignant, grievous, deplorable, mournful, moving, disturbing, distressful, doleful, forlorn, rueful, saddening, cheerless, affecting, abject, touching, joyless, stirring, plaintive, comfortless, tearful, afflicted, commiserative, heart-rending, tear-jerking, gut-wrenching, to be pitied, unhappy, upsetting, melancholy, gloomy, agonizing, desolate … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “She went on to pour out such a pitiful tale of things gone awry that Genji could bear it no longer.”
      “The laborers were paid only a pitiful amount for the work that they had accomplished.”
      “Here is a pitiful example of someone who cannot take responsibility for the consequences of her choices.”
pitiless
  1. having, or showing, no pity; merciless
  2. having no kindly feelings; unkind
  3. Synonyms:
      4. merciless, ruthless, heartless, cruel, callous, hard, inhuman, unfeeling, unsympathetic, inhumane, remorseless, unmerciful, uncharitable, unsparing, stony, savage, compassionless, indurate, affectless, barbarous, soulless, uncaring, ironhearted, unkind, stonyhearted, stoney, pachydermatous, desensitised, desensitized, insensate, barbaric, sadistic, cold, unforgiving, mean, unrelenting, unpitying, hardhearted, indifferent, unbending, austere, unmoved, wanton, coldhearted, inclement, unremitting, insensible, coldblooded, hatchetjob, satanic … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “That exquisite creature, so gentle and heavenly, was but a tyrant. She was the pitiless tyrant and torturer of my soul!”
      “His mother's pitiless remarks about his father's illness and incapacities, about which she felt no embarrassment in expressing in his presence, enraged Henry.”
      “The educated reader knew who was behind this pitiless satire on the decadence of the nobility.”
pitiable
  1. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sorry, miserable, pathetic, sad, deplorable, wretched, dismal, distressing, heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, piteous, pitiful, poor, rueful, harrowing, mournful, woeful, doleful, abject, afflicted, base, cheerless, comfortless, distressed, grievous, joyless, ruthful, sorrowful, suffering, tearful, unfortunate, gut-wrenching, tragic, moving, poignant, heart-rending, forlorn, unhappy, upsetting, saddening, depressing, touching, melancholy, gloomy, dreary, tear-jerking, distressful, dire, desolate … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The few lives that I had come across were miserable ones, pitiable creatures who had no hope left to live on with.”
      “The hotel room was decked out in crummy pitiable furniture.”
      “So these pathetic people hide their pitiable gutless selves in the cloak of anonymity.”
pitifull
  1. Archaic form of pitiful.
pitifuller
  1. comparative form of pitiful: more pitiful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. sadder, wretcheder, miserabler, woefuller, sorrier, poorer, mournfuller, dolefuler, forlorner, abjecter, more heartbreaking, more pathetic, more distressing, more tragic, more pitiable, more piteous, more heartrending, more harrowing, more lamentable, more dismal, more sorrowful, more unfortunate, more poignant, more grievous, more deplorable, more moving, more disturbing, more distressful, more rueful, more saddening, more cheerless, more affecting, more touching, more joyless, more plaintive, more comfortless, more tearful, more afflicted, more commiserative, more gut-wrenching, unhappier, more upsetting, more melancholy, more agonizing, gloomier, more desolate, painfuller, more regrettable, more depressing, more traumatic … more
pitifullest
  1. superlative form of pitiful: most pitiful
  2. Synonyms:
      3. saddest, wretchedest, miserablest, woefullest, sorriest, poorest, mournfullest, dolefulest, forlornest, abjectest, most heartbreaking, most pathetic, most distressing, most tragic, most pitiable, most piteous, most heartrending, most harrowing, most lamentable, most dismal, most sorrowful, most unfortunate, most poignant, most grievous, most deplorable, most moving, most disturbing, most distressful, most rueful, most saddening, most cheerless, most affecting, most touching, most joyless, most plaintive, most comfortless, most tearful, most afflicted, most commiserative, most heart-rending, most gut-wrenching, unhappiest, most upsetting, most melancholy, most agonizing, gloomiest, most desolate, painfullest, most regrettable, most depressing … more
pitied
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pity
  2. Synonyms:
      3. felt for, compassionated, sympathized with, bled for, commiserated with, ached, oke, aken, ached for, comforted, commiserated, condoled, condoled with, consoled, empathised, empathized, empathized with, felt pity for, felt sorry for, reprieved, solaced, soothed, sympathised, sympathized, understood, wept for, yearned over, felt sympathy for, grieved for, took pity on, taken pity on, was sympathetic, were sympathetic, been sympathetic, felt with, gave quarter, given quarter, granted amnesty, grieved with, had compassion, identified with, lamented with, showed concern, shown concern, showed sympathy, shown sympathy, had compassion for, had mercy on, appreciated, related to … more
pitying
  1. present participle of pity
  2. Synonyms:
      3. feeling for, compassionating, sympathizing with, bleeding for, commiserating with, aching, aching for, comforting, commiserating, condoling, condoling with, consoling, empathising, empathizing, empathizing with, feeling pity for, feeling sorry for, reprieving, solacing, soothing, sympathising, sympathizing, understanding, weeping for, yearning over, feeling sympathy for, grieving for, taking pity on, being sympathetic, feeling with, giving quarter, granting amnesty, grieving with, having compassion, identifying with, lamenting with, showing concern, showing sympathy, having compassion for, having mercy on, showing compassion for, appreciating, relating to, expressing concern, bleeding, expressing sympathy, sorrowing for, offering condolences to, showing interest, sharing another's sorrow … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He gave her a pitying look.”
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