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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
piteous
adj 1: 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]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Piteous \Pit"e*ous\, a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See
Pity.]
1. Pious; devout. [Obs.]
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The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
--Wyclif.
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2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate;
tender. "[She] piteous of his case." --Pope.
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She was so charitable and so pitous. --Chaucer.
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3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable;
lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. --Spenser.
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The most piteous tale of Lear. --Shak.
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4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." --Milton.
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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.
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Thesaurus Results for piteous:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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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Common Misspellings > |
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