inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
Someone who is pitiable is in such a sad or weak state that you feel pity for them. Her grandmother seemed to her a pitiable figure. = pitiful + pitiably piti·ably Their main grievance was that they had not received their pitiably low pay She found Frances lying on the bed crying pitiably. = pitifully. making you feel pity
Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness
deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"