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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]

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:

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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