piteous

Adjective
  1. Deserving or inciting pity (synset 301054589)
    "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
    similar to: unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
    same as: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

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