Humane vs Pitiful - What's the difference?
humane | pitiful | Related terms |
Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical literature or rhetoric.
*, II.3.7:
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).
Humane is a related term of pitiful.
As adjectives the difference between humane and pitiful
is that humane is having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate while pitiful is feeling pity; merciful.humane
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Adjective
(en adjective)- It is no longer considered humane to perform vivisection on research animals.
- As methods of execution go, beheading is more humane than drawing and quartering.
- many divine precepts to counterpoise our hearts, special antidotes both in scriptures and humane authors, which who so will observe, shall purchase much ease and quietness unto himself.
Antonyms
* inhuman, inhumaneDerived terms
* humanelyReferences
* ----pitiful
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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.
