English-Spanish translations for pitiful

• digno de compasión
• digno de conmiseración
• digno de lástima
• lamentable
  La eficacia de la gestión es lamentable. Administrative payments are in a pitiful state.
  Repito: Lo que está ocurriendo aquí esta tarde es lamentable y vergonzoso. I repeat: what is happening here this evening is pitiful and disgraceful.
• lastimero
• lastimoso
  Cualquier otra cosa será considerada un lastimoso respaldo de dichas violaciones. Anything else will be seen as a pitiful endorsement of such abuses.

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