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# pitiable

«pitiable» in Mova's school dictionary: **so poor, weak or sad that people feel pity for it** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pitiable)

### meaning for a pupil

Pitiable means so poor, weak or sad that people feel pity for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

describes a sad state or condition of a person in a tale

### examples

- He returned in a pitiable condition. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiable/#x1)
- The poor dog looked pitiable in the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiable/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pitiable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.