PITEOUS

piteous. Piteous, a. sorrowful, tender, pitiful, woful

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Pit″e‐ous (?), a. [[OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.]] 1. 1. Pious; devout.
The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif. 2. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. “ piteous of his case.” Pope.
She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer. 3. 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser.
The most piteous tale of Lear. Shak. 4. 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.