About The Word Piteous
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Piteous
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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 See Also | 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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