piteous
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adjective- 1.
Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
1782, Frances Burney, Cecilia, London: T. Payne & Son and T. Cadell, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 4, p. 51, […] my strength, madam, is almost all gone away, and when I do any hard work, it’s quite a piteous sight to see me, for I am all in a tremble after it, just as if I had an ague […]
Đồng nghĩa: heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, pathetic, pitiful, compassionate, pathetic, pathetisad, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, pitisome, poor, rueful, ruthful, snivelly, sorry-ass
- 2.
(obsolete)Showing devotion to God.
Đồng nghĩa: devout, pious, Allah-fearing, devout, devoutful, frum, godfearing, heavenly-minded, inward, godly, observant, pious, piteous, practicing, religionary, sainted, sanctimonious
- 3.
(obsolete)Showing compassion.
Đồng nghĩa: compassionate, tender
- 4.
(obsolete)Of little importance or value.
Đồng nghĩa: miserable, paltry, pathetic, mean, pitiful, base, contemptible, floccinaucinihilipilificatious, foolish, for the birds, futile, frivolous, idle, ignorable, immaterial, inconsequential, inconsiderable, indifferent, insignificant, like a fart in a windstorm, meager, mean, minor, miserable, negligible, nothingburger, nondescript, null, paltry, petty, picayune, picayunish, piddling, piddly, pissant, pissass, piteous, pitiful, pointless, silly, simple, slight, ticky-tacky, tin-pot, trifling, trivial, two-bit, unimportant, unweighty, vain, worthless, wretched
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From Middle English pitous, from Old French piteus, pitus.