Words that rhyme with piteous

• adventitious 0
  adj 1: associated by chance and not an integral part; "poetry is something to which words are the accidental, not by any means the essential form"- Frederick W. Robertson; "they had to decide whether his misconduct was adventitious or the result of a flaw in his character"
• ambitious 0
  adj 1: having a strong desire for success or achievement [ant: ambitionless, unambitious] 2: requiring full use of your abilities or resources; "ambitious schedule"; "performed the most challenging task without a mistake" [syn: ambitious, challenging]
• auspicious 0
  adj 1: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" [ant: inauspicious, unfortunate]
• avaricious 0
  adj 1: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees" [syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]
• beauteous 0
  adj 1: (poetic )beautiful, especially to the sight
• bounteous 0
  adj 1: given or giving freely; "was a big tipper"; "the bounteous goodness of God"; "bountiful compliments"; "a freehanded host"; "a handsome allowance"; "Saturday's child is loving and giving"; "a liberal backer of the arts"; "a munificent gift"; "her fond and openhanded grandfather" [syn: big, bighearted, bounteous, bountiful, freehanded, handsome, giving, liberal, openhanded]
• capricious 0
  adj 1: changeable; "a capricious summer breeze"; "freakish weather" [syn: capricious, freakish] 2: determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; "a capricious refusal"; "authoritarian rulers are frequently capricious"; "the victim of whimsical persecutions" [syn: capricious, impulsive, whimsical]
• courteous 0
  adj 1: exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture" [syn: courteous, gracious, nice] 2: characterized by courtesy and gracious good manners; "if a man be gracious and courteous to strangers it shows he is a citizen of the world"-Francis Bacon [ant: discourteous]
• discourteous 0
  adj 1: showing no courtesy; rude; "a distant and at times discourteous young" [ant: courteous] 2: lacking social graces [syn: discourteous, ungracious]
• duteous 0
  adj 1: willingly obedient out of a sense of duty and respect; "a dutiful child"; "a dutiful citizen"; "Patient Griselda was a chaste and duteous wife"; [syn: dutiful, duteous]
• gluteus 0
  n 1: any one of three large skeletal muscles that form the buttock and move the thigh [syn: gluteus, gluteus muscle, gluteal muscle, glute]
• plenteous 0
  adj 1: affording an abundant supply; "had ample food for the party"; "copious provisions"; "food is plentiful"; "a plenteous grape harvest"; "a rich supply" [syn: ample, copious, plenteous, plentiful, rich]
• saponaceous 0
  adj 1: resembling or having the qualities of soap; "a soapy consistency" [syn: saponaceous, soapy]
• sebaceous 0
  adj 1: containing an unusual amount of grease or oil; "greasy hamburgers"; "oily fried potatoes"; "oleaginous seeds" [syn: greasy, oily, sebaceous, oleaginous]
• seditious 0
  adj 1: arousing to action or rebellion [syn: incendiary, incitive, inflammatory, instigative, rabble- rousing, seditious] 2: in opposition to a civil authority or government [syn: insurgent, seditious, subversive]
• setaceous 0
  adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]
• siliceous 0
  adj 1: relating to or containing or resembling silica; "gritrock is siliceous sandstone" [syn: siliceous, silicious]
• spacious 0
  adj 1: very large in expanse or scope; "a broad lawn"; "the wide plains"; "a spacious view"; "spacious skies" [syn: broad, spacious, wide] 2: (of buildings and rooms) having ample space; "a roomy but sparsely furnished apartment"; "a spacious ballroom" [syn: roomy, spacious]
• specious 0
  adj 1: plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences" [syn: specious, spurious] 2: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious]
• superstitious 0
  adj 1: showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance; "finally realized that the horror he felt was superstitious in origin"
• suppositious 0
  adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
• supposititious 0
  adj 1: based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence; "theories about the extinction of dinosaurs are still highly conjectural"; "the supposed reason for his absence"; "suppositious reconstructions of dead languages"; "hypothetical situation" [syn: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetical, hypothetic, supposed, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious]
• surreptitious 0
  adj 1: marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch" [syn: furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious] 2: conducted with or marked by hidden aims or methods; "clandestine intelligence operations"; "cloak-and-dagger activities behind enemy lines"; "hole-and-corner intrigue"; "secret missions"; "a secret agent"; "secret sales of arms"; "surreptitious mobilization of troops"; "an undercover investigation"; "underground resistance" [syn: clandestine, cloak-and-dagger, hole-and-corner(a), hugger-mugger, hush-hush, secret, surreptitious, undercover, underground]
• suspicious 0
  adj 1: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary] 2: not as expected; "there was something fishy about the accident"; "up to some funny business"; "some definitely queer goings-on"; "a shady deal"; "her motives were suspect"; "suspicious behavior" [syn: fishy, funny, shady, suspect, suspicious]
• tenacious 0
  adj 1: good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory" [syn: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious] [ant: forgetful, short, unretentive] 2: stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" [syn: dogged, dour, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding] 3: sticking together; "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" [syn: coherent, tenacious]
• vicious 0
  adj 1: (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering; "a barbarous crime"; "brutal beatings"; "cruel tortures"; "Stalin's roughshod treatment of the kulaks"; "a savage slap"; "vicious kicks" [syn: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious] 2: having the nature of vice [syn: evil, vicious] 3: bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure; "a criminal waste of talent"; "a deplorable act of violence"; "adultery is as reprehensible for a husband as for a wife" [syn: condemnable, criminal, deplorable, reprehensible, vicious] 4: marked by deep ill will; deliberately harmful; "poisonous hate"; "venomous criticism"; "vicious gossip" [syn: poisonous, venomous, vicious]
• ignatius 0
  n 1: bishop of Antioch who was martyred under the Roman Emperor Trajan (died 110) [syn: Ignatius, Saint Ignatius, St. Ignatius]
• mauritius 0
  n 1: a parliamentary state on the island of Mauritius [syn: Mauritius, Republic of Mauritius] 2: an island in the southwestern Indian Ocean
• sericeous 0
  adj 1: covered with fine soft hairs or down; "downy milkweed seeds" [syn: downy, pubescent, puberulent, sericeous]
• cementitious 0
  adj 1: like or relevant to or having the properties of cement; "the adhesion of cementitious materials"
• unsuspicious 0
  adj 1: not suspicious; "deceiving the unsuspecting public" [syn: unsuspecting, unsuspicious]
• testaceous 0
  adj 1: relating to or possessing a testa or hard shell; "testaceous fish"
• proteus 0
  n 1: (Greek mythology) a prophetic god who served Poseidon; was capable of changing his shape at will 2: type genus of the Proteidae [syn: Proteus, genus Proteus]
• robustious 0
  adj 1: noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline; "a boisterous crowd"; "a social gathering that became rambunctious and out of hand"; "a robustious group of teenagers"; "beneath the rumbustious surface of his paintings is sympathy for the vulnerability of ordinary human beings"; "an unruly class" [syn: boisterous, rambunctious, robustious, rumbustious, unruly]
• grotius 0
  n 1: Dutch jurist and diplomat whose writings established the basis of modern international law (1583-1645) [syn: Grotius, Hugo Grotius, Huig de Groot]
• photius 0
  n 1: Patriarch of Constantinople and saint of the Greek Orthodox Church; was condemned by the Fourth Council of Constantinople in 869 but was reinstated by a later pope
• pumiceous 0
• spadiceous 0
• aloysius 0
• inofficious 0
• cactaceous 0
• pontius 0
• luteous 0
• statius 0
• galimatias 0

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