piteous

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compassionate
{a} sorrowful, tender, pitiful, woful
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"
Pious; devout
{s} arousing compassion, moving; pitiful, pathetic, wretched
Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender
Of or pertaining to a pitiful state or condition
Something that is piteous is so sad that you feel great pity for the person involved. As they pass by, a piteous wailing is heard. = pitiful. expressing suffering and sadness in a way that makes you feel pity (piteus, from pietas; PITY)
Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case
Paltry; mean; pitiful
piteously
In a piteous manner; pathetically; plaintively
piteously
{a} in a piteous manner, sadly
piteously
in a piteous manner
piteously
pathetically, pitiably, wretchedly, in a manner that arouses compassion
piteousness
{i} pitifulness, wretchedness; miserableness, state of deserving compassion or mercy
piteousness
The condition of being piteous