pitiful
- (adjective): Feeling pity; merciful.
- (adjective): So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
- (adjective): Of an amount or number: very small.
- (adverb): In a pitiful manner; pitifully; piteously; pathetically.
- Scotland has a pitiful climate.
- A pitiful number of students bothered to turn up.