pitiable

  • (s) inspiring mixed contempt and pity
    • their efforts were pathetic
    • pitiable lack of character
    • pitiful exhibition of cowardice
    pitiful, pathetic,
  • (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, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, poor, miserable, pitiful, wretched,

Synonyms

pitiful pathetic hapless misfortunate piteous poor miserable wretched

Words of close approximity

pitiably
pitiably