Mournful vs Pitiful - What's the difference?
mournful | pitiful | Related terms |
Filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns.
Fit to inspire mourning; tragic.
* (Edgar Allan Poe)
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).
Mournful is a related term of pitiful.
As adjectives the difference between mournful and pitiful
is that mournful is filled with grief or sadness; being in a state in which one mourns while pitiful is feeling pity; merciful.mournful
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Alternative forms
* mournfullAdjective
(en-adj)- Having deposited our mournful burden upon tressels within this region of horror, we partially turned aside the yet unscrewed lid of the coffin, and looked upon the face of the tenant.
Synonyms
* See alsopitiful
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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.