Synonyms for pitiful at Thesaurus.com: deplorable, despicable, dismal, distressed, distressing, abject, affecting, afflicted, base, beggarly, cheap, cheerless, comfortless, commiserative, contemptible, fish, grievous, heart-rending, heartbreaking, inadequate, insignificant, joyless, lamentable, low, mean, miserable, mournful, moving, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, sad, scummy, scurvy, shabby, sorrowful, sorry, stirring, suffering, tearful, unhappy, vile, wimpy, woeful, worthless and wretched.
