Pitiful vs. Mournful

Pitiful vs. Mournful — Is There a Difference?
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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 news

Pitifuladjective

inspiring mixed contempt and pity;

their efforts were patheticpitiable lack of characterpitiful exhibition of cowardice

Pitifuladjective

bad; unfortunate;

my finances were in a deplorable statea lamentable decisionher clothes were in sad shapea sorry state of affairs

Pitifuladjective

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