Mournful vs. Pitiful
Difference Between Mournful and Pitiful
Mournful➦
Feeling or expressing sorrow or grief; sorrowful.
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Pitiful➦
Inspiring or deserving pity.
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Mournful➦
Causing or suggesting sadness or melancholy
the mournful sound of a train whistle.
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Pitiful➦
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy.
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Mournful➦
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
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Pitiful➦
(Archaic) Filled with pity or compassion.
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Mournful➦
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
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Pitiful➦
Feeling pity; merciful.
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Mournful➦
Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss.
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Pitiful➦
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Scotland has a pitiful climate.
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Mournful➦
expressing sorrow
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Pitiful➦
Of an amount or number: very small.
A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
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Mournful➦
filled with or evoking sadness;
the child's doleful expression
stared with mournful eyes
mournful news
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Pitiful➦
In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
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Pitiful➦
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
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Pitiful➦
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible.
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Pitiful➦
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
That's villainous, and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
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Pitiful➦
inspiring mixed contempt and pity;
their efforts were pathetic
pitiable lack of character
pitiful exhibition of cowardice
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Pitiful➦
bad; unfortunate;
my finances were in a deplorable state
a lamentable decision
her clothes were in sad shape
a sorry state of affairs
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Pitiful➦
deserving or inciting pity;
a hapless victim
miserable victims of war
the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
piteous appeals for help
pitiable homeless children
a pitiful fate
Oh, you poor thing
his poor distorted limbs
a wretched life
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