Difference between Sad and Pitiful

SAD vs PITIFUL: NOUN

Dark-hued; somber.
Deplorable or inadequate; sorry.
Causing sorrow or gloom; depressing.
Showing, expressing, or feeling sorrow or unhappiness.
Bad; unfortunate
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness
Soggy (to refer to pastries).
Unfashionable; socially inadequate or undesirable.
Poor in quality, bad; shameful, deplorable; later, regrettable, poor.
Of things that make you feel sad
Sated; satisfied; weary; tired.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous; close; hard.
Dull; grave; dark; somber; -- said of colors.
Serious; grave; sober; steadfast; not light or frivolous.
Affected with grief or unhappiness; cast down with affliction; downcast; gloomy; mournful.
Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow.
Hence, bad; naughty; troublesome; wicked.
Heavy bread.
Sated, having had one's fill; satisfied, weary.
Steadfast, valiant.
Dignified, serious, grave.
Of colours: dark, deep; later, sombre, dull.
Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Causing sorrow; lamentable.
Appearing sorrowful.

Very small (of an amount or number).
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Feeling pity; merciful.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Filled with pity or compassion.
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. : pathetic.
Inspiring or deserving pity.
Deserving or inciting pity
Bad; unfortunate
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity

Full; having had one's fill; sated; surfeited; hence, satiated; wearied; tired; sick.
Heavy; weighty; ponderous.
Firm; solid; fixed.
Close; compact; hard; stiff; not light or soft.
Heavy; soggy; doughy; that has not risen well: as, sad bread.
Weighty; important; momentous.
Strong; stout: said of a person or an animal.
Settled; fixed; resolute.
Dire, deplorable.
Sober; serious; grave; sedate; discreet; responsible; wise; sage.
Sorrowful; melancholy; mournful; dejected.
Expressing or marked by sorrow or melancholy.
Having the external appearance of sorrow; gloomy; downcast: as, a sad countenance.
Distressing; grievous; disastrous: as, a sad accident; a sad disappointment.
Troublesome; trying; bad; wicked: sometimes used jocularly: as, a sad grumbler; a sad rogue.
Dark; somber; sober; quiet: applied to color: as, a sad brown.
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Depressed, cheerless, desponding, disconsolate.
Steadfast; constant; trusty; faithful.
Bad
Strongly; stiffly.
Soberly; prudently; discreetly.
Closely; firmly: as, to lie sad.
To make firm.
To strengthen; establish; confirm.
To sadden; make sorrowful; grieve.
Unfortunate

Unfortunate
Bad
Exciting or fitted to excite pity or compassion; miserable; deplorable; sad: as, a pitiful condition; a pitiful look.
Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the distressed.
To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; insignificant; contemptible; despicable.

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Bad, Miserable, Mournful, Deplorable, Melancholy, Pitiful, Lamentable, Sadden, Sorrowful, Depressing, Bittersweet, Tragic, Sorry, Distressing, Saddening

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

When Jessica feels sad, she likes to listen to sad songs, which somehow helps her feel better.
And so these terrible accidents were happening, horrible sad, sad accidents.
Sad, so sad that American Congress, Senate and Presidents did allow these horrific acts to be unleashed on Africans during slavery.
Prisoners sad, he asked them, why is your face more sad than ordinary?
Why do people listen to sad songs when they are sad?
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Eating the SAD diet literally makes you sad.
He should be sad because she was sad.
The sad sad news about Kidd Kraddick is shocking.
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Canaanite provincials as pitiful and of little consequence.
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
We are not excessively pitiful of his case.
Poor pitiful me, how I had been wronged.
But the birth itself is still more pitiful.
All he does is cry poor pitiful me.
Really pitiful players may bring a croquet mallet.
Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The women first break their men into a pitiful betas, unless they already were pitiful.