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Piteous

Piteous Meaning & Definition
Piteous Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Piteous?

[adj] deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Piteous: hapless | miserable | misfortunate | pathetic | pitiable | pitiful | poor | unfortunate | wretched

Related Terms | Find terms related to Piteous: affecting | afflictive | beseeching | bitter | bleak | cheerless | comfortless | deplorable | depressing | depressive | discomforting | dismal | dismaying | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | dreary | emotional | entreating | grievous | heartrending | imploring | joyless | lamentable | melancholy | miserable | mournful | moving | painful | pathetic | pitiable | pitiful | plaintive | poignant | poor | regrettable | rueful | ruined | sad | saddening | sharp | sore | sorrowful | supplicating | tearful | touching | uncomfortable | woebegone | woeful | wretched

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Piteous In Webster's Dictionary

\Pit"e*ous\, a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See {Pity}.] 1. Pious; devout. [Obs.] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. --Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. ``[She] piteous of his case.'' --Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. --Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. --Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. --Shak. 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. ``Piteous amends.'' --Milton. Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. -- {Pit"e*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pit"e*ous*ness}, n.

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