piteousadjective
uk/ˈpɪt.i.əs/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.əs/causing you to feel sadness and sympathy:
The kitten gave a piteous cry.
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Sympathy & compassion
- a good listener idiom
- a shoulder to cry on idiom
- aw
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- better luck next time idiom
- cloud
- feel for sb
- fellow feeling
- go out to sb
- hard luck! idiom
- hard/tough cheese! idiom
- poor
- relate
- relate to sb
- sad
- sensitive
- shoulder
- solace
- sympathy vote
- understanding
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piteously
adverb uk/ˈpɪt.i.əs.li/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.əs.li/
She wept piteously.
piteousness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈpɪt.i.əs.nəs/us/ˈpɪt̬.i.əs.nəs/