hapless; miserable; misfortunate; pathetic; piteous; pitiable; pitiful; poor; wretched




deserving or inciting pity

"a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

Nearest:
  • unfortunate


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