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# pitiful

«pitiful» in Mova's school dictionary: **making you feel sorry for someone** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (pitiful, pitifully)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Pitiful means making you feel sorry for someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiful/#m1)

2) Pitiful can also mean very poor or useless: a pitiful effort. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiful/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

describes a sad sight, a sad tale, or a poor, miserable person

### examples

- Pinocchio told his pitiful tale. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiful/#x1)
- The lost kitten gave a pitiful mew. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiful/#x2)
- His effort was pitiful; he scored only one goal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pitiful/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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