PITEOUS
\pˈɪti͡əs], \pˈɪtiəs], \p_ˈɪ_t_iə_s]\
Definitions of PITEOUS
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
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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"
By Princeton University
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Pious; devout.
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Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
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Paltry; mean; pitiful.
By Oddity Software
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Pious; devout.
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Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
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Paltry; mean; pitiful.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
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Fitted to excite pity; compassionate.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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