Origin: Latin suffix -able
Pitiable has 3 different meanings across 1 category:
deserving or inciting pity
"a hapless victim"
"miserable victims of war"
"the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"
"piteous appeals for help"
"pitiable homeless children"
"a pitiful fate"
"Oh, you poor thing"
"his poor distorted limbs"
"a wretched life"
That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.