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What does pitiful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word pitiful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  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.
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So as an act of pitiful rebellion against the fact that I even have to be at work, I'm refusing to turn the office lights on.
For them, it is difficult to get sentimental about the back-breaking labour and the pitiful annual income.
As if our hitting and fielding weren't pitiful enough, our baby-blue uniforms carried the name of the local mental hospital.
Morphine and laudanum addicts were usually seen as pitiful unfortunates living failed lives as a result of their habits.
If that is true, then what a truly pitiful bunch of lazy, coffee house analysts we are.
A pitiful thousand men left from our large expedition stood up to join me, almost none woundless.

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