pitiable

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.
    — Mr Poyser had no reason to be ashamed of his leg, and suspected that the growing abuse of top-boots and other fashions tending to disguise the nether limbs, had their origin in a pitiable degeneracy of the human calf.

词形变化

more pitiable comparative most pitiable superlative

词源

From Middle French [Term?], from Old French piteable. By surface analysis, pity + -able.
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