2 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Piteous \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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" [syn: {hapless}, {miserable},
{misfortunate}, {pathetic}, {pitiable}, {pitiful}, {poor},
{wretched}]
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