Category:Piteous

Pit"e*ous, a. Etym: [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.