Piteous

Definition: Piteous

Piteous

Adjective

1. 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life".

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Date "piteous" was first used: 13th century. (references)

Etymology: Piteous \Pit"e*ous\, adjective. [from Old English expression pitous, Old French pitos, French piteux. See Pity.]. (references)

Synonyms: Piteous

Pain

Distressing; afflicting, afflictive; joyless, cheerless, comfortless; dismal, disheartening; depressing, depressive; dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous; woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable; sad, affecting, touching, pathetic.

Crosswords: Piteous

The ragged tramp began to beg in most piteous terms. Credit: Library of Congress.

She holds out her hand with a piteous grace. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The tyrannous and bloody act is done, The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

i mjerë (abject, crummy, desolate, dismal, forlorn, ill fated, ill-starred, infelicitous, lowlife, miserable, paltry, penurious, pimping, sorry, unhappy, unlucky, worm), i gjorë (poor, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references)

Arabic 

‏تافه (banal, commonplace, contemptible, crummy, fade, fiddling, flat, foolish, footling, fractional, frivolous, frothy, good for nothing, inane, inconsiderable, insignificant, junk, light, lilliputian, little, lowbrow, measly, minute, naught, negligible, niggling, nonsensical, nugatory, null, paltry, pedestrian, petty, piddling, pimping, pitiable, platitudinous, pointless, puny, ridiculous, run of the mill, silly, slight, slim, small time, smelly, stupid, trifle, trifling, trite, trivial, trumpery, two a penny, two bit, twopenny-halfpenny, unimportant, unsavory, unsavoury, unworthy, vain, valueless, vapid, vile, worthless), ‏جدير بالشفقة, ‏أثار الشفقة (pitiful, stir, touch), ‏بائس (afflicted, cheerless, deplorable, desolate, devil, disconsolate, distressed, forlorn, godforsaken, hapless, heel, helpless, lamentable, measly, miserable, paltry, pathetic, penurious, pitiful, poor, poverty stricken, ratty, sad, scruffy, seedy, sickly, sordid, squalid, unfortunate, unhappy, woeful, wretched). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сърцераздирателен (heartbreaking, heartrending), възбуждащ състрадание, жалък (abject, lamentable, mangy, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, pokey, poor, sad, scabbed, scabby, scaly, scrubby, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful), плачевен (deplorable, lamentable, plaintive, plangent, rueful, sad). (various references)

Czech

budící soucit (pitiful), bìdný, žalostný (deplorable, lamentable, measly, pathetic, pitiable, plaintive, regretful, rueful, woeful, woesome, wretched). (various references)

Farsi 

جانگداز, رقت انگیز (Deplorable, Pathetic, Pitiable, Pitiful), رقت بار (Pitiable), دلسوز (Sympathetic). (various references)

Finnish

säälittävä (miserable, pitiable, pitiful, to be pitied, wretched). (various references)

French

pitoyable (pitiable, pitiful), misérable (pitiable, pitiful), lamentable (pitiful). (various references)

German

kläglich (deplorable, deplorably, miserable, miserably, mournful, mournfully, pathetic, piteously, pitiable, pitiably, pitiful, pitifully, puny, rueful, wretched). (various references)

Greek 

ελεεινόσ (abject, beggarly, deplorable, disgraceful, forlorn, haggard, miserable, pitiable, scrub, scrubby, seedy, sorry, wretched), αξιολύπητοσ (beggarly, woefully), οικτρόσ (pathetic, pathetical, pitiable, pitiful). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעורר רחמים (pitiable, pitiful). (various references)

Hungarian

szánalomra méltó (deplorable, lamentable, pitiable, pitiful, regretful, woeful), szánakozó (commiserative, pitiful, pitying, regretful), siralmas (abject, deplorable, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, pitiable, sorry, woeful), sajnálatra méltó (deplorable, lamentable, regretful), sajnálatos (deplorable, pitiable, pitied, regrettable, sad, sorrowful, unhappy), együttérző (commiserating, pitier, sympathetic, warm). (various references)

Italian

pietoso (compassionate, depressingly, merciful, pitiable, pitiful, sorry, wretched). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"�れっぽい (doleful, plaintive). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

あわれっぽい (doleful, plaintive). (various references)

Manx

treih (abject, deplorable, doughy, drawn, feeble, forlorn, fragile, haggard, miserable, pale, pale-faced, pallid, pasty, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, regrettable, rueful, sallow, seedy, sickly, wan, wretched, wretched of thing). (various references)

Pig Latin

iteouspay.(various references)

Portuguese

triste (bleak, blue, broken-hearted, cheerless, dark, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, dumpish, dumpy, gaunt, gloomily, gray, grey, joyless, lonesome, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, misty, moody, mopish, mourning, pained, painful, pensive, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sore, sorrowful, sorry, tearful, tristful, unhappy, upset), lamentável (lamentable, melancholy, pitiable, pitiful, regretful, regrettable, sad, sorrowful, tearful, unfortunate, wretched). (various references)

Romanian

vrednic de milã (pathetic, pitiable), sãrac (barren, beggarly, destitute, empty, hard up, impecunious, in straitened circumstances, lean, low-lived, meager, meagre, mean, needful, needy, pauper, peeled, penniless, penurious, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor man, poverty stricken, scanty, small, sterile, stingy, void), jalnic (beggarly, deplorable, distressing, doleful, forlorn, heart rending, lamentable, lamentably, lamenting, mangy, mean, miserable, miserably, mournful, pathetic, pathetically, pitiable, plaintive, rueful, ruefully, sad, sorrowful, sorry, squalid, woeful, wretched), biet (miserable, poor, unfortunate, unlucky). (various references)

Russian 

жалкий (abject, forlorn, paltry, pathetic, pimping, pitiable, pitiful, poor, scrubby, woeful, wretched), жалобный (doleful, drear, plaintive, wailful), достойный сожаления. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

za žaljenje (pitiable, regrettable), jadan (deplorable, jejune, lamentable, miserable, pelting, pitiable, poor, wretched). (various references)

Spanish

patético (pathetic, pathetical, soulful), lastimoso (deplorable, pitiable, pitiful, sorry). (various references)

Swedish

ynklig (measly, paltry, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, rueful, scrubby, sorry), sorglig (dismal, doleful, dolorous, funereal, grievous, heartbreaking, heart-breaking, lachrymose, lamentable, lugubrious, mournful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome), ömklig (dastardly, despicable, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, pityful). (various references)

Turkish

zavallı (nebbish, pitiable, pitiful, poor, poor thing, poverty stricken, sorry, wretched), acınacak halde (deplorable, pathetically, pitiable, pitiful, sorry, wretched), acıklı (deplorable, depressing, distressful, distressing, dolorous, hurtful, lugubrious, pathetic, rueful, sad, sorrowful, tearful, touching, weepy, woeful). (various references)

Ukrainian

злиденний (deplorable, mendicant, squalid, starveling), жалюгідний (abject, beggarly, caitiff, contemptible, deplorable, forlorn, impoverished, lamentable, mean, miserable, parsimonious, pitiable, pitiful, poor, queachy, snide, sorry, tatty, woeful, woesome, wretched), жалібно (lamentably), жалібний (moanful, querulous, wailsome). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thảm thương (lamentable, rueful, tragic, tragical), đáng thương hại (pitiable). (various references)

pietas. (various references)

pietosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "piteous": piteously, piteousness, piteousnesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "piteous": despiteous, dispiteous. (additional references)

Words containing "piteous": despiteously. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Piteous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Citeaux, hiteous, peteos, piee-ou, pieous, pitais, Pitakuti, pitious, pitoe, pitous, Pittakos, potous, pteos, Pterois, Pytheos, riteous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: potsie, sopite.

-2 letters: estop, etuis, pesto, pious, piste, poets, poise, posit, pouts, setup, situp, spite, spout, stipe, stope, stoup, stupe, suite, topes, topis, touse, upset.

-3 letters: epos, etui, opes, opts, opus, oust, outs, peso, pest, pets, pies, piso, pits, poet, pois, pose, post, pots, pout, puts, sept, sipe, site, soup, spit, spot, spue.

+1 letter: postique, poutiest, roupiest, soupiest, wipeouts.

+2 letters: autopsied, autopsies, croupiest, dipterous, eruptions, guidepost, impetuous, impostume, imposture, outpities, outprices, piteously, postiques, pouchiest, poultices, poultries, proustite.

+3 letters: audiotapes, autotypies, bluepoints, despiteous, dispiteous, eutrophies, guideposts, importunes, imposthume, impostumes, impostures, miscompute, outpitches, outpromise, periosteum, petiolules, pilothouse, pirouettes, pleustonic, prostitute, protrusive, proustites, pyrolusite, resumption, subreption, supertonic, suppletion, supportive, turophiles.