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adjective

1.

evoking or deserving pity; lamentable: pitiable, homeless children.

2.

evoking or deserving contemptuous pity; miserable; contemptible: a pitiable lack of character.

Origin:

1425-75; late Middle English < Old French piteable, equivalent to pite ( er ) to pity + -able -able

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