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