Piteous

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

Adj.

1.

piteous - 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" Synonyms: misfortunate, pathetic, hapless, miserable, poor, pitiable, pitiful, wretched

afflictive, beseeching, bitter, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, deplorable, depressing, depressive, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, emotional, entreating, grievous, heartrending, imploring, joyless, lamentable, melancholy, miserable, mournful, painful, pathetic, pitiful, plaintive, poor, regrettable, rueful, ruined, saddening, sharp, sore, sorrowful, supplicating, tearful, uncomfortable, woebegone, woeful, wretched