Read full poem →The blue and the yellow. Oh, please look down!"
Then, with a pitiful, puzzled frown,
He would get up slowly from his play
Dictionary Entry
Feeling pity; merciful.
Origin
Origin details are still being enriched for this entry.
Common Phrases
. pitifulsight pitifullittle pitifulcondition pitifulstate pitifulstory pitiful
Missing dictionary details are being fetched in the background.
Antonyms
No antonyms yet.
Poetry examples for “pitiful”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Ah, it has ebbed with me! Ye gods, and when it was flowing,
Pitiful fool that I was, to stand fiddle-faddling in that way!
Read full poem →Yes, when I came, with mean fears in my soul, with a semi-performance
At the first step breaking down in its pitiful rôle of evasion,
When to shuffle I came, to compromise, not meet, engagements,
Read full poem →I shall entreat thee then, though now I dare to refuse thee,—
Pale and pitiful now, but terrible then to the dying.—
Well, I will see thee again, and while I can, will repel thee.
Read full poem →Should I not turn with yearning eyes,
Turn earthwards with a pitiful pang?
O save me from a pang in Heaven!
Read full poem →'Nay, pitiful Love, nay, loving Pity! Well
Thou knowest that in these twain I have confess'd
Read full poem →lying without its soul among many ladies,
who held a pitiful weeping. Whereupon,
remembering that I had seen her in the
Read full poem →Have been that the woodlandish ghouls--
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls--
To bar up our path and to ban it
Read full poem →Have been that the woodlandish ghouls—
The pitiful, the merciful ghouls—
To bar up our path and to ban it
Read full poem →A place of memory sick for senses dulled
Down to the dusty end where pitiful Time
Grown weary cries Enough!