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| | Definition: | | [adj] 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
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| | Synonyms: | | hapless, miserable, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, unfortunate, wretched |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mis*for"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a.
Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
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