piteous
11piteous — See pitiable, piteous …
12piteous — pit|e|ous [ˈpıtiəs] adj literary [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: piteus, from Latin pietas; PITY1] expressing suffering and sadness in a way that makes you feel pity ▪ She gave a long piteous cry. >piteously adv …
13piteous — pit|e|ous [ pıtiəs ] adjective LITERARY a piteous sound, expression, or situation makes you feel sympathy for someone or something ╾ pit|e|ous|ly adverb …
14piteous — adjective especially literary expressing suffering and sadness in a way that makes you feel pity: piteous sobs piteously adverb …
15piteous — adjective a piteous cry Syn: sad, pitiful, pitiable, pathetic, heart rending, heartbreaking, moving, touching; plaintive, poignant, forlorn; poor, wretched, miserable …
16piteous — UK [ˈpɪtɪəs] / US adjective literary a piteous sound, expression, or situation makes you feel sympathy for someone or something Derived word: piteously adverb …
17piteous — adjective Date: 14th century of a kind to move to pity or compassion • piteously adverb • piteousness noun …
18piteous — adjective Of or pertaining to a pitiful state or condition. Syn: pathetic …
19piteous — Synonyms and related words: affecting, afflictive, beseeching, bitter, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous,… …
20piteous — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. grievous, sorrowful; pitiable, pathetic; wretched, miserable. See pain, pity. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pitiful, wretched, miserable; see pitiful 1 . See Synonym Study at pitiful . III (Roget s 3… …
