'Piteous' definitions:
Definition of 'piteous'
From: WordNet
adjective
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"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]
Definition of 'Piteous'
From: GCIDE
- Piteous \Pit"e*ous\, a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.]
- 1. Pious; devout. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. --Wyclif. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[She] piteous of his case." --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- She was so charitable and so pitous. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- The most piteous tale of Lear. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. [1913 Webster] -- {Pit"e*ous*ly}, adv. -- {Pit"e*ous*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'piteous'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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