piteously

1. 1.

   in a piteous manner

Questions about piteously

What does piteously mean?

piteously means "in a piteous manner".

How many syllables are in piteously?

piteously has 4 syllables and divides as pi-te-ou-sly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is piteously a common word?

piteously is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.