English-Italian translations for pitiful

• pietoso
  Ripeto: quanto accade qui stasera è pietoso e spiacevole. I repeat: what is happening here this evening is pitiful and disgraceful.
  Non mi tratterrò ulteriormente su questa storia infinita con il suo esito pietoso. I will not comment further on this never-ending story with its pitiful outcome.
  Più seriamente, il controllo democratico di tali dichiarazioni è, naturalmente, pietoso. On a more serious note, democratic scrutiny of these declarations is, of course, pitiful.

Definition of pitiful

• Feeling pity; merciful
• So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity
• Of an amount or number: very small
• In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically

Examples

• Scotland has a pitiful climate
• A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up

Related words

• pitifully
• pitiful person
• pitiful sight