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Myanmar Meaning

(n) ဖုန်းလိုင်းတင်ပေး

Definition

pitiful /'pÇtÇfl/ adj ၁။ သနားခ်င့္စဖြယ္ (ေကာင္းေသာ)။ The horse was a pitiful creature/sight (eg because it was very thin or sick). ❍ Their suffering was pitiful to see. ၂။ ( derog ) (သနားစရာေကာင္း ေအာင္) ႏုန္႔နဲ႔ေသာ၊ ႏံုခ်ာေသာ။ pitiful efforts/excuses/lies. Compare PITEOUS, PITIABLE ❏ pitifully /-fǝli/ adv ၁။ သနားစရာ ေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္။ The dog was whining pitifully. ❍ Their standard of living remains pitifully low. ၂။ ရယ္စရာေကာင္းေလာက္ ေအာင္။ ( derog ) The fee is pitifully low/inadequate.

Examples

  1. The scrawny little kitten looked so pitiful out in the rain.
  2. The refugee camp was a pitiful sight.
  3. A pitiful performance
  4. A pitiful excuse
  5. The way we have been treated is pitiful.
  6. Pitiful wages
  7. Pitifully thin children