Synset:hapless miserable pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful poor wretched
Examples:
- 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
Antonyms:fortunate
Derivationally Related Form:wretchednesspathosmiserablenesspity
Inherited Hypernyms:hapless
Similar to:unfortunate