| Piteous 1. (a.) Evoking pity, compassion, or sympathy; pathetic. 2. (a.) Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. 3. (a.) Paltry; mean; pitiful. Thesaurus Entries affecting, afflictive, beseeching, bitter, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, emotional, entreating, grievous, heartrending, imploring, joyless, lamentable, melancholy, miserable, mournful, moving, painful, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, regrettable, rueful, ruined, sad, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowful, supplicating, tearful, touching, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched |