piteous

piteous is a 7-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Pious; devout. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 11 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Pious; devout.
2. adjective. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
3. adjective. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
4. adjective. Paltry; mean; pitiful.
5. adjective. deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy

   "a hapless victim"

   "miserable victims of war"

   Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

Synonyms

hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in piteous:

poustie, toupies

Common word forms

piteously, piteousness

Words from these letters

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