piteous English

Meaning piteous meaning

What does piteous mean?

piteous

— adjective (= hapless, miserable, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched) 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

Synonyms piteous synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as piteous?

piteous English » English

pitiable

pathetic

pity

pitiful

wretched

miserable

poor

misfortunate

woeful

sorry

lamentable

hapless

deplorable

beggarly

abject

woebegone

whining

trashy

stinky

sordid

shoddy

shabby

seedy

scrubby

scrub

rueful

ropey

punk

plaintive

pathetical

moving

lousy

infelicitous

heart-rending

hangdog

haggard

forlorn

execrable

excessive

doleful

distressing

disgraceful

crestfallen

affecting