piteous

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(literary) deserving or causing pity: a piteous cry / sight piteously adverb

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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piteousEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus piteousEnglish›UyghurMain Dictionary piteousEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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