PITIFUL

adj. arousing compassion, emotionally moving

Adjective
1. inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
(synonym) pathetic, pitiable
(similar) contemptible
2. bad; unfortunate; "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
(synonym) deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry
(similar) bad
3. 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"
(synonym) hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched
(similar) unfortunate

(a.)
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
  

(a.)
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
  

(a.)
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
  

adj.
1. compassionate
ملائم, موم دل, رحيم, دردمند, رحم دل, واجب الرحم, قابل ترحم
2. see pitiable
3. despicable
ذليل, حقير, مبتذل, پاجي, خوار

Synonyms and related words:
abominable, affecting, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beggarly, beneath contempt, beneath one, blameworthy, brutal, cheap, cheesy, common, contemptible, crummy, debasing, degrading, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, detestable, dire, disgraceful, disgusting, doleful, dreadful, egregious, enormous, fetid, filthy, flagrant, foul, fulsome, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, gross, gutter, hateful, heartrending, heinous, horrible, horrid, humiliating, humiliative, infamous, infra dig, infra indignitatem, insignificant, lamentable, little, loathsome, lousy, mean, meretricious, miserable, monstrous, moving, nasty, nefarious, noisome, notorious, obnoxious, odious, offensive, opprobrious, outrageous, paltry, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, rank, regrettable, reprehensible, repulsive, rotten, rubbishy, rueful, sad, scandalous, schlock, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, shameful, shocking, shoddy, small, sordid, sorry, squalid, terrible, too bad, touching, trashy, trifling, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, unbecoming, unclean, unimportant, unworthy of one, valueless, vile, villainous, woeful, worst, worthless, wretched