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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
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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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Piteous \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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
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"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted
limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: hapless, miserable,
misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
wretched]
From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
Αγγλικά n.
αξιολύπητος, που βρίσκεται σε μια κατάσταση που προκαλεί τη συμπόνια
μας
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
a.
provoke pity, compassion, or sympathy.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
a.
provoke pity, compassion, or sympathy.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
a.
provoke pity, compassion, or sympathy.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
a.
provoke pity, compassion, or sympathy.
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
piteous
Engelska a.
ömklig
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
مثير للشّفقة
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
жалък, плачевен
pitiful
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
dojímavý
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
[formal] mitleiderregend, herzergreifend, herzzerreißend, zu Herzen gehend
"a pathetic / piteous sight" - ein mitleiderregender Anblick
"a pathetic / piteous cry" - ein herzzerreißender Schrei
"a pathetic / piteous story" - eine herzerweichende Geschichte
Synonym: pathetic
From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-fin ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
surkea, säälittävä
pitiful
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
1. दयनीय
"Her piteous cry makes me emotional."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
bijedan, dostojan žalbe, tužan, ubog, žalostiv
From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 : [ freedict:eng-hun ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
1. nyomorúságos
2. szomorú
3. siralmas
4. együttérzô
5. sajnálatra méltó
6. szánalomra méltó
7. szánakozó
8. részvevô
9. sajnálatos
From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 : [ freedict:eng-pol ]
piteous /ˈpɪtɪəs/
żałosny
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
piteous /pˈɪtiəs/
1. merhamet uyandıran, acınacak halde olan, hazin.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
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
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
a. 哀怨的,可怜的
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
a. 哀怨的,可怜的
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