Thesaurus: piteous

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1. a. Pious; devout.
2. a. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
3. a. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
4. a. Paltry; mean; pitiful.
5. adj. deserving or inciting pity
6. 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.
7. j:100 s deserving or inciting pity