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ADJECTIVE (1)

1. deserving or inciting pity;
- Example: "a hapless victim"
- Example: "miserable victims of war"
- Example: "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
- Example: "piteous appeals for help"
- Example: "pitiable homeless children"
- Example: "a pitiful fate"
- Example: "Oh, you poor thing"
- Example: "his poor distorted limbs"
- Example: "a wretched life"
[syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]



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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WordNet (r) 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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

53 Moby Thesaurus words for "piteous":
   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