Adjective

• 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"