Difference between Pitiful and Piteous

PITIFUL vs PITEOUS: ADJECTIVE

Feeling pity; merciful.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Filled with pity or compassion.
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. : pathetic.
Inspiring or deserving pity.
Deserving or inciting pity
Bad; unfortunate
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Very small (of an amount or number).

Bad
Unfortunate
Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the distressed.
Exciting or fitted to excite pity or compassion; miserable; deplorable; sad: as, a pitiful condition; a pitiful look.
To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; insignificant; contemptible; despicable.

Pitiful; paltry; poor: as, piteous amends. Milton.
Such as to excite pity or move to compassion; affecting; lamentable; sorrowful; mournful; sad: as, a piteous look; a piteous case.
Full of pity or compassion; compassionate; affected by pity.

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

Canaanite provincials as pitiful and of little consequence.
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
We are not excessively pitiful of his case.
Poor pitiful me, how I had been wronged.
But the birth itself is still more pitiful.
All he does is cry poor pitiful me.
Really pitiful players may bring a croquet mallet.
Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The women first break their men into a pitiful betas, unless they already were pitiful.

Indians than she can well spare; and this because her tender heart cannot withstand the piteous appeals so constantly made.
NEMESIS, piteous way, why she was smitten down, and he, a grey, sapless trunk, left standing.
The townships remained poorly serviced with inadequate housing, and local government was in a piteous state.
Pain erupted in cramped muscles all along my body, making piteous noises of distress.
Thus having said, he heavily departed With piteous crie, that auie would have smarted.
Dying Wife Made Piteous Plea for Life When She Saw Her Baby.
French Christians in the fifth century to utter their piteous supplications.
Her voice was tense with piteous anguish as she pleaded.
Almah threw a piteous glance at me and said nothing.
It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.