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- Middle English · inherited frompityful
- English todaypitiful
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
pitiful
Today it means: So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity. Full definition →
Middle English pityful