Heartrending vs Pitiful - What's the difference?
heartrending | pitiful | Related terms |
Feeling pity; merciful.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Very small (of an amount or number).
Heartrending is a related term of pitiful.
As adjectives the difference between heartrending and pitiful
is that heartrending is that causes great grief, anguish or distress while pitiful is feeling pity; merciful.pitiful
English
Alternative forms
* pitifull (archaic)Adjective
(pitifuller)- Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful .
- Scotland has a pitiful climate.
- A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.
