substantial, sound, solid, firm; pregnant, full, chock-full, jam-packed; significant, important, momentous, consequential, vital, essential, necessary, valuable,
pitiable, adj. pathetic, pitiful; sad, doleful. See - pitiful (defs. 1, 2).
pitiful, adj. 1. pathetic, pitiable, piteous, sad, doleful, dolorous. See - piteous.
2. miserable, wretched, abject, squalid, stark, dismal; poor, meager, scanty, skimpy, scrimpy, beggarly, sorry, cheap, niggardly, worthless; shabby, shoddy, scrubby, scruffy, dirty, scurvy; mean, low, base, vile, contemptible, despicable,
pitiless, adj. merciless, unmerciful, unpitying, unsparing, unsympathetic, unfeeling, unkind, impervious, insentient, inexorable; cold, frigid, heartless, soulless, passionless, cold-hearted, hard-hearted, marble-hearted, iron-hearted; callous, thickskinned, stony, hard, hardened, indurate, untouched, unstirred, unmoved; implacable, relentless, unyielding, obdurate, obstinate, stiff, flinty, adamant, adamantine; aloof, distant, unresponsive, apathetic, indifferent, supine, unconcerned, uninterested, unimpressible, uncaring; cruel, ruthless, brutal, savage, barbarous, inhuman, cold-blooded,
pittance, n. 1. allowance, subsistence allowance, subsidy, maintenance, living expenses; pin or pocket money, expenses, expense account, per diem, viaticum; allotment, ration, quota, stint; stipend, grant, fellowship, scholarship, subvention; annuity, pension, Law. alimony, child support.
2. small change, nickles and dimes, pennies, scratch, Sl. peanuts, Sl. chickenfeed, Sl. small potatoes; slave wages, meager earnings, barely enough to scrape or get by on, not enough to live on; mite, modicum, barely anything.
pitted, adj. pocked, pocky, pockmarked, punctate, varioloid, variolous, variolar, Pathol, variolate, Petrogeny. variolitic, All Biol, foveat, foveated, foveal, foveolate, foveolar; scarred, marked, spotted, blemished, marred, defaced; craterous, cavitied, eaten away, eroded; dented, indented, depressed, hammered, pounded, beaten, distressed; riddled, shot through, pierced, pin-pricked, perforated, porous, holey, full of holes, honeycombed, lacunose, cribriform, cribl£.
pitter-patter, n. pattering, tapping, rapping, beating, drumming; palpitating, pulsating; scurrying, scuttling, skipping,
pity, n. 1. commiseration, sympathy, ruth, condolence, condolement, consolation, comfort, solace; compassion, tenderness, kindliness, heart, softheartedness, benevolence; lenience, lenity, mercy, mercifulness, humaneness, humanity; favor, grace, forbearance, forgivingness, liberality, magnanimity, placability, clemency, charity.
2. shame, regret; disgrace, dishonor; atrocity, desecration, sacrilege, violation, profanation, abomination.
-v. 3. commiserate, condole, sympathize, express sympathy, lament with; compassionate, be or feel sorry for, feel grief or sorrow for, feel for, grieve for, bleed for, weep for; relent, forbear, melt, thaw, show mercy, have mercy upon, Inf. have a heart; relax, spare, give quarter, Inf. go easy on, Inf. let up on, Inf. give [s.o.] a break; reprieve, pardon, forgive, absolve; put out of one's misery, Inf. pull the plug,
pitying, adj. sympathetic, sympathizing, ruthful, commiserative, commiserable, commiserating, con-dolent, condolatory, condoling, comforting; compassionate, tender, kind, kindly, soft, gentle, mild, mild-hearted, soft-hearted, exorable, charitable, benevolent, beneficent, benignant; lenient, merciful, clement, placable, humane, forgiving, pardoning; magnanimous, gracious, liberal, forbearing.