Pitiable

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

Synonyms: Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. Pit"i*a*bly, adv.