Piteous vs Dismal - What's the difference?
piteous | dismal | Related terms |
pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) pious; devout
* Wyclif
(obsolete) compassionate; tender
* Alexander Pope
(obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful
Disappointingly inadequate.
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Piteous is a related term of dismal.
As adjectives the difference between piteous and dismal
is that piteous is pitiful; evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy while dismal is disappointingly inadequate.piteous
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)
Synonyms
* patheticDerived terms
* piteouslydismal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Liverpool 0-1 West Brom, passage=Liverpool's efforts thereafter had an air of desperation as their dismal 2012 league form continued.}}
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all. It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.}}