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piteous
adjective
(pit-e-ous)
deserving or inciting pity
Synonyms:
hapless
,
miserable
,
misfortunate
,
pathetic
,
pitiable
,
pitiful
,
poor
,
wretched
,
Examples:
Piteous appeals for help.
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piteous
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pitiable
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pitiful
,
pathetic
,
wretched
,
hapless
,
miserable
,
misfortunate
,
poor
,
unfortunate
,
doleful
,
sorrowful
,
plaintive
,
reproachful
,
ghastly
,
forlorn
,
dolorous
,
heartrending
,
abject
,
lachrymose
,
lugubrious
,
cheerless
,
unaffecting
,
unheeding
,
bathetic
,
unseeing
,
phantasmal
,
fathomless
,
pantomimic
,
cacophonic
,
depthless
,
causeless
,
somnambulistic
,
unbeautiful
,
pitying
,
stygian
,
tearless
,
unutterable
,
mirthless
,
quavery
,
unwonted
,
drear
,
benumbed
,
verminous
,
querulous
,
banal
,
baleful
,
unpoetic
,
desolating
,
recriminatory
,
lumpish
,
affectless
,
unamusing
,
haunting
,
overwrought
,
wrathful
,
dickensian
,
slatternly
,
ravening
,
goony
,
unpeopled
,
slumberous
,
purgatorial
,
sepulchral
,
swiftian
,
foetid
,
melodramatic
,
maudlin
,
bilious
,
dantean
,
nauseating
,
dostoevskian
,
hysterical
,
demoniac
,
sophoclean
,
demented
,
oedipal
,
overfamiliar
,
nabokovian
,
melancholy
,
livelong
,
putrescent
,
toneless
,
pitiless
,
uncomprehending
,
mawkish
,
unrelieved
,
morose
,
cultureless
,
wailful
,
moonstruck
,
goatish
,
rageful
,
sententious
,
unescapable
,
rheumy
,
histrionic
,
grotesque
,
artless
,
hackneyed
,
vacuous
,
piteous
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