hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
piteous (comparative more piteous, superlative most piteous)
Provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
Synonyms: heartbreaking, heartrending, lamentable, pathetic, pitiful
(obsolete) Showing devotion to God.
Synonyms: devout, pious
(obsolete) Showing compassion.
Synonyms: compassionate, tender
(obsolete) Of little importance or value.
Synonyms: miserable, paltry, pathetic, mean, pitiful
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Source: Wiktionary
Pit"e*ous, a. Etym: [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.]
1. Pious; devout. [Obs.] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif.
2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender. "[She] piteous of his case." Pope. She was so charitable and so pitous. Chaucer.
3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable; sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser. The most piteous tale of Lear. Shak.
4. Paltry; mean; pitiful. "Piteous amends." Milton.
Syn.
– Sorrowful; mournful; affecting; doleful; woeful; rueful; sad; wretched; miserable; pitiable; pitiful; compassionate.
– Pit"e*ous*ly, adv.
– Pit"e*ous*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 December 2024
(adverb) in an intuitive manner; “inventors seem to have chosen intuitively a combination of explosive and aggressive sounds as warning signals to be used on automobiles”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
