1. piteous - Adjective
2. piteous - Adjective Satellite
Pious; devout.
Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
Paltry; mean; pitiful.
Source: Webster's dictionaryBehold a silly tender babe, In freezing winter night, In homely manger trembling lies; Alas! a piteous sight. Robert Southwell
But the world moves on, and the piteous Earth Still groans in the monster pain; And the star that leads me points onward yet, Though the red drops fall like rain! Voltairine de Cleyre
A sad event and worthy of Memory, Who draws forth men from their (closed) sepulchres, Befell that piteous maid, and pitiful Who, after she was dead was (crowned) queen. Luís de Camões
Accept these images for what they are - Out of the past a fragile element Of substance into accident. I would speak honestly and of a full heart; I would speak surely for the tale is short, And the soul's remorseless catalogue Assumes its quick and piteous sum. Robert Penn Warren
Waft, gentle gale, oh waft to Samercand, When next thou visitest that blissful land, The plaint of Khorassania plung'd in woe: Bear to Turania's King our piteous scroll, Whose opening breathes forth all the anguish'd soul, And close denotes whate'er the tortur'd know. Anvari
Now from the broken tower, what solemn bell still tolls, Mourning what piteous death? Answer, O saddened souls! Who mourn the death of beauty and the death of grace. Lionel Johnson