Pitiful vs. Mournful
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Difference Between Pitiful and Mournful
Pitifuladjective
Feeling pity; merciful.
Mournfuladjective
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Pitifuladjective
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Scotland has a pitiful climate.Mournfuladjective
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
Pitifuladjective
Of an amount or number: very small.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.Mournfuladjective
expressing sorrow
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Pitifuladverb
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
Mournfuladjective
filled with or evoking sadness;
the child's doleful expressionstared with mournful eyesmournful newsPitifuladjective
inspiring mixed contempt and pity;
their efforts were patheticpitiable lack of characterpitiful exhibition of cowardicePitifuladjective
bad; unfortunate;
my finances were in a deplorable statea lamentable decisionher clothes were in sad shapea sorry state of affairsPitifuladjective
deserving or inciting pity;
a hapless victimmiserable victims of warthe shabby room struck her as extraordinarily patheticpiteous appeals for helppitiable homeless childrena pitiful fateOh, you poor thinghis poor distorted limbsa wretched life
