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piteous a. 哀怨的,可憐的 哀怨的,可憐的 piteous adj 1: 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" [ synonym: { hapless}, { miserable}, { misfortunate}, { pathetic}, { piteous}, { pitiable}, { pitiful}, { poor}, { wretched}] Piteous \ Pit" e* ous\, a. [ OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See { Pity}.] 1. Pious; devout. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. -- Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[ She] piteous of his case." -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] She was so charitable and so pitous. -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. -- Spenser. [ 1913 Webster] The most piteous tale of Lear. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. " Piteous amends." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Pit" e* ous* ly}, adv. -- { Pit" e* ous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 53 Moby Thesaurus words for " piteous": 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
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