Definitions for: 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"

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, unfortunate, wretched

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