pitiful sight

  • 111monstrous — Synonyms and related words: Atlantean, Brobdingnagian, Cyclopean, Gargantuan, Herculean, Homeric, a bit much, abandoned, abject, abominable, absurd, abysmal, amplitudinous, appalling, arrant, astronomic, astronomical, atrocious, awesome, awful,… …

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  • 112outrageous — Synonyms and related words: Fescennine, a bit much, abandoned, abominable, absurd, abusive, acute, appalling, arrant, atrocious, awful, backhand, backhanded, barbaric, barbarous, base, beastly, beneath contempt, beneath one, beyond belief,… …

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  • 113pathetic — [[t]pəθe̱tɪk[/t]] 1) ADJ GRADED If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them. ...a pathetic little dog with a curly tail... The small group of… …

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  • 114sorry — 1. adjective 1) I was sorry to hear about his accident Syn: sad, unhappy, sorrowful, distressed, upset, downcast, downhearted, disheartened, despondent; heartbroken, inconsolable, grief stricken Ant: glad …

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  • 115pathetic — pa•thet•ic [[t]pəˈθɛt ɪk[/t]] alsopa•thet′i•cal adj. 1) causing or evoking pity, either sympathetically or contemptibly; pitiful: a pathetic sight; a pathetic return on our investment[/ex] 2) sad; sorrowful; mournful: a pathetic tone of… …

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  • 116confusable words — 1. Words are most often confused because they are alike in form (or spelling) and in some aspect of meaning, as with fortunate and fortuitous, or prevaricate and procrastinate. Some sets are confused simply in spelling, although the meanings and… …

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  • 117sor´ri|ness — sor|ry «SOR ee, SR », adjective, ri|er, ri|est. 1. feeling pity, regret, or sympathy; sad: »I am sorry that you are sick. We are sorry that we cannot come to the party. Everyone is sorry for a blind animal. SYNONYM(S): distressed, sorrowful …

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  • 118sor´ri|ly — sor|ry «SOR ee, SR », adjective, ri|er, ri|est. 1. feeling pity, regret, or sympathy; sad: »I am sorry that you are sick. We are sorry that we cannot come to the party. Everyone is sorry for a blind animal. SYNONYM(S): distressed, sorrowful …

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  • 119sor|ry — «SOR ee, SR », adjective, ri|er, ri|est. 1. feeling pity, regret, or sympathy; sad: »I am sorry that you are sick. We are sorry that we cannot come to the party. Everyone is sorry for a blind animal. SYNONYM(S): distressed, sorrowful …

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