Word Meanings - PITEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pious; devout. The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. " piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity

Additional info about word: PITEOUS

1. Pious; devout. The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. " piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. Shak. 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." Milton. Syn. -- Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. -- Pit"e*ous*ly, adv. -- Pit"e*ous*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PITEOUS)

• Doleful
• Dolorous
• rueful
• melancholy
• piteous
• somber
• sorrowful
• woebegone
• dismal

Related words: (words related to PITEOUS)

• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SOMBERNESS; SOMBRENESS
  The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.
• RUEFUL
  1. Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful. 2. Expressing sorrow. "Rueful faces." Dryden. Two rueful figures, with long black cloaks. Sir W. Scott. -- Rue"ful*ly, adv. -- Rue"ful*ness, n.
• DISMAL
  dismalle." Chaucer. Of uncertain origin; but perh. (as suggested by Skeat) from OF. disme, F. dîme, tithe, the phrase dismal day properly 1. Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky. An ugly fiend more foul than dismal day. Spenser. 2. Gloomy to the eye or
• MELANCHOLY
  1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• SORROWFUL
  1. Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed. "This sorrowful prisoner." Chaucer. My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death. Matt. xxvi. 38. 2. Producing sorrow; exciting grief; mournful; lamentable; grievous;
• DOLOROUS
  1. Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses. You take me in too dolorous a sense; I spake to you for your comfort. Shak. 2. Occasioning pain or grief; painful. Their dispatch is quick, and less
• SOMBER; SOMBRE
  from LL. subumbrare to put in the shade; L. sub under + umbra shade. 1. Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house. 2. Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections. The dinner was silent
• DOLEFUL
  Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal. With screwed face and doleful whine. South. Regions of sorrow, doleful shades. Milton. Syn. -- Piteous; rueful; sorrowful; woeful; melancholy; sad gloomy; dismal;
• DISMALNESS
  The quality of being dismal; gloominess.
• PITEOUS
  1. Pious; devout. The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif. 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. " piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer. 3. Fitted to excite pity
• SOMBERLY; SOMBRELY
  In a somber manner; sombrously; gloomily; despondingly.
• IMPITEOUS
  Pitiless; cruel.
• DESPITEOUS
  Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.
• DESPITEOUSLY
  Despitefully.
• DISPITEOUS
  Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser. -- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv.