Vile vs Pitiful - What's the difference?

Vile is a related term of pitiful.

is that vile is morally low; base; despicable while pitiful is feeling pity; merciful.

(en-adj)

morally low; base; despicable

* base * despicable * mean * ignoble

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* pitifull (archaic)

(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.

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