misfortunate

  • (s) 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
    hapless, pathetic, piteous, poor, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, wretched,

Synonyms

hapless pathetic piteous poor miserable pitiable pitiful wretched

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