pitiful的意思和读音

pitiful

: [ˈpɪtɪf(ə)l] : ['pɪtɪf(ə)l]

adj.

Adj.+n.pitiful sight,pitiful condition

adj.admirable,heartening,magnanimous

adj.disgraceful,deplorable,contemptible,derisible,pathetic

pitifuladj.

1.deserving pity or causing you to feel pity

The horse was a pitiful sight(= because it was very thin or sick) .

2.not deserving respect

a pitiful effort/excuse/performance

adj.1.2.3.,

adj.1.looking or sounding so unhappy that you feel sympathy and sadness2.extremely bad3.a pitiful amount of something is very small and not enough

1. figure n. pitiful a. benevolence n. ...

2. pitch v. pitiful adj. pivot n. ; ...

3. out of pity [] pitiful possible,perhaps,maybe 。 ...

4. ... 14. deposit ①vt. to settle 3. pitiful adj. inspiring or deserving pity ...

5. pioneer n. pitiful a. plasma n. ...

6. 【it's a pity】 pitiful;pitiable】 【meagre;miserable】 ...

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1.True, she was not the pure and spotless maiden of his dreams, but it was precisely this that made her more pitiful and able to help him.

2.They are the log that strands on the bank, rock and the bottom of river or becomes the timber, which are very pitiful .

3.I'm your mayor, and ready to do all I can, but I stand alone with a mere pitiful veto right.

4.The mouse which had been caught was a pitiful specimen; but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.使

5.Is there some semantic problem, or do I understand you to mean that you do not care that the pitiful Sentinels will be crushed like vermin?

6.We bought the jug on Shattuck Avenue way down and went over and once more I saw his pitiful English bicycle on the lawn.沿

7.What's more, it is pitiful to see how little it takes for a woman to actually refuel and turn her life around!

8.And pitiful old Abe Foxman, head of the Anti-Defamation League, decides that discrimination on the basis of religion is all right after all.

9.Mary must still be in love with her black-haired boy; all that she's done since he left her is mooning about--it's pitiful, really.――

10.After the money was taken away by the thief by force, that pitiful old woman had to turn to the police for help.