English-Portuguese translations for pitiful

• lamentável
  O resultado administrativo é lamentável. Administrative payments are in a pitiful state.
  Repito: o que está a acontecer aqui, esta noite, é lamentável e vergonhoso. I repeat: what is happening here this evening is pitiful and disgraceful.
• lastimoso
  Lastimoso, em quaisquer circunstâncias.This is pitiful, under any circumstances.

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