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Meaning of 'piteous' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Piteous [ a.]
- Pious; devout.
- Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
- Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
- Paltry; mean; pitiful.

Meaning of 'piteous' (Princeton's WordNet)

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

Nearby Words:

pit pit-hole pita pitahaya pitapat pitch pitch-black pitch-dark pitch-faced pitch-ore

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