| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Arousing or deserving pity: pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, ruthful. See PITY. 2. Causing sorrow or regret: deplorable, doleful, dolorous, grievous, lamentable, mournful, regrettable, sad, sorrowful, woeful. See HAPPY. 3. Full of or expressive of sorrow: doleful, dolorous, lugubrious, mournful, plaintive, sad, sorrowful, woebegone, woeful. See HAPPY.
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