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adj. Demanding or arousing pity: a piteous appeal for help. See Synonyms at pathetic.

adj. Archaic Pitying; compassionate.

adj. pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.

adj. pious; devout

adj. compassionate; tender

adj. paltry; mean; pitiful

adj. Pious; devout.

adj. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.

adj. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad.

adj. Paltry; mean; pitiful.

Full of pity or compassion; compassionate; affected by pity.

Such as to excite pity or move to compassion; affecting; lamentable; sorrowful; mournful; sad: as, a piteous look; a piteous case.

Pitiful; paltry; poor: as, piteous amends. Milton.

adj. deserving or inciting pity

"“O my lady, I am a banisht wight and with passion for a beloved one in piteous plight, nor with other will I consent to love-delight.”"

unfortunate   

doleful    pitiful    miserable    rueful    woeful    wretched    pitiable    sad    compassionate    mournful   

plaintive    pitiful    anguished    doleful    wordless    heartrending    lamentable    pitiable    tearful    sad