• adj.
    ⦿deserving or inciting pity
    lexical concept
  • Oh, you poor thing
  • a hapless victim
  • a pitiful fate
  • a wretched life
  • his poor distorted limbs
  • miserable victims of war
  • piteous appeals for help
  • pitiable homeless children
  • the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechadjective satellite
ontolex:lexicalized sense
  1. enl:piteous
  2. enl:pitiful
  3. enl:wretched
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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:label
  • haplessmiserablemisfortunatepatheticpiteouspitiablepitifulpoorwretched
  • haplessmisfortunatepiteouspoor