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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. deserving or inciting pity;
- Example: "a hapless victim"
- Example: "miserable victims of war"
- Example: "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
- Example: "piteous appeals for help"
- Example: "pitiable homeless children"
- Example: "a pitiful fate"
- Example: "Oh, you poor thing"
- Example: "his poor distorted limbs"
- Example: "a wretched life"
[syn: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Misfortunate \Mis*for"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a.
   Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

misfortunate
    adj 1: 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" [syn: hapless, miserable,
           misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable,
           pitiful, poor, wretched]