piteous

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adjective

deserving or inciting pity (Freq. 3)
- 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, pitiable,
pitiful, poor, wretched
• Similar to:
unfortunate
• Derivationally related forms:
wretchedness (for: wretched), pity, pathos (for: pathetic), miserableness (for: miserable)

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched