Piteous /(?)/

Pit·e·ous

Piteous

a.
  1. Pious; devout. [Obs.]
    The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
  2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
    She was so charitable and so pitous.
  3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case.
    The most piteous tale of Lear.
  4. Paltry; mean; pitiful.