Associations to the word «Piteous»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
PITEOUS, adjective. Pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.
PITEOUS, adjective. (obsolete) pious; devout
PITEOUS, adjective. (obsolete) compassionate; tender
PITEOUS, adjective. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful
Dictionary definition
PITEOUS, adjective. 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".
Wise words
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike
fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the
new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.