Definitions for piteous
ˈpɪt i əspiteous

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretchedadjective

   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"

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1. piteousadjective

   pitiful

2. Etymology: pitous, from piteus, pitus,

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piteousadjective

   Etymology: from pity.

   1. Sorrowful; mournful; exciting pity.

   When they heard that piteous strained voice,
   In haste forsook their rural merriment. Fairy Queen.

   The most arch deed of piteous massacre,
   That ever yet this land was guilty of. William Shakespeare, Rich. III.

   Which when Deucalion with a piteous look
   Beheld, he wept. Dryden.

   2. Compassionate; tender.

   If the series of thy joys
   Permit one thought less cheerful to arise,
   Piteous transfer it to the mournful swain. Matthew Prior.

   She gave him, piteous of his case,
   A shaggy tap’stry. Alexander Pope, Dunciad.

   3. Wretched; paltry; pitiful.

   Piteous amends! unless
   Be meant our grand foe. John Milton, Par. Lost.

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1. piteous

   Pity is a sympathetic sorrow evoked by the suffering of others, and is used in a comparable sense to compassion, condolence or empathy – the word deriving from the Latin pietas (etymon also of piety). Self-pity is pity directed towards oneself. Two different kinds of pity can be distinguished, "benevolent pity" and "contemptuous pity" (see Kimball), where, through insincere, pejorative usage, pity is used to connote feelings of superiority, condescension, or contempt.

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1. piteous

   Piteous refers to something that arouses pity, sympathy, or compassion due to its condition of suffering, misfortune, need or distress.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piteousadjective

   pious; devout

2. Piteousadjective

   evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender

3. Piteousadjective

   fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case

4. Piteousadjective

   paltry; mean; pitiful

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Piteous

   pit′e-us, adj. showing or feeling pity: fitted to excite pity: mournful: compassionate: paltry.—adv. Pit′eously.—n. Pit′eousness. [O. Fr. pitos, piteus. Cf. Pity.]

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of piteous in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of piteous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of piteous in a Sentence

1. Homer:

   It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair. But when dogs shame the gray head and gray chin and nakedness of an old man killed, it is the most piteous thing that happens among wretched mortals.

2. Helen Hunt Jackson:

   Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

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