Lamenting vs Piteous - What's the difference?
lamenting | piteous | Related terms |
lamentation
* Shakespeare
pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) pious; devout
* Wyclif
(obsolete) compassionate; tender
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful
Lamenting is a related term of piteous.
As a verb lamenting
is .As a noun lamenting
is lamentation.As an adjective piteous is
pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.lamenting
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death
Anagrams
* alignmentpiteous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The most piteous tale of Lear.
- The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
- [She was] piteous of his case.
- (Milton)