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Stirring vs Pitiful - What's the difference?

stirring | pitiful |

As adjectives the difference between stirring and pitiful

is that stirring is invigorating or inspiring while pitiful is feeling pity; merciful.

As a verb stirring

is .

As a noun stirring

is (gerund of stir) an occasion on which something stirs or is stirred.

stirring

English

Adjective

(head)
  • invigorating or inspiring
  • *
    • As he had said, his voice was hoarse, but he sang well enough, and it was a stirring tune, something between 'Clementine' and 'La Cucaracha'.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=March 1 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2 - 1 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=But Chelsea, who left Didier Drogba on the bench as coach Carlo Ancelotti favoured Fernando Torres, staged a stirring fightback to move up to fourth and keep United in their sights on a night when nothing other than victory would have kept the Blues in contention.}}
  • * 22 March 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Hunger Games [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-hunger-games,71293/]
  • *:The opening crawl (and a stirring propaganda movie) informs us that “The Hunger Games” are an annual event in Panem, a North American nation divided into 12 different districts, each in service to the Capitol, a wealthy metropolis that owes its creature comforts to an oppressive dictatorship.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (gerund of stir) An occasion on which something stirs or is stirred
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 16, Carter Dougherty, European Central Bank Cuts Key Rate, New York Times citation
    • , passage=The reduction takes the central bank back to where it was in December 2005, when it began raising its key rate despite objections from some political figures and many economists about choking the early stirrings of a recovery in growth. }}

    pitiful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pitifull (archaic)

    Adjective

    (pitifuller)
  • Feeling pity; merciful.
  • * 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
    • Straightway, he now goes on to make a full confession; whereupon the mariners became more and more appalled, but still are pitiful .
  • So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
    • Scotland has a pitiful climate.
  • Very small (of an amount or number).
    • A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * pitiable * pity