Adjective

• S: (adj) pathetic, pitiable, pitiful (inspiring mixed contempt and pity) "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
• S: (adj) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry (bad; unfortunate) "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
• S: (adj) 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"