Pitiable and Plaintive

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Pitiable adjective - Arousing or deserving of one's loathing and disgust.

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Plaintive and pitiable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Plaintive" instead an adjective "Pitiable".

Nearby Words: pitiful, pity, pitifully, pitied, pitiably

Plaintive adjective - Expressing or suggesting mourning.

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Pitiable and plaintive are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Pitiable" instead an adjective "Plaintive".

Nearby Words: plaint, plaintively

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