Adjective
1. of very poor quality or condition;
"deplorable housing conditions in the inner city""woeful treatment of the accused""woeful errors of judgment"2. characterized by physical misery;
"a wet miserable weekend""spent a wretched night on the floor"3. very unhappy; full of misery;
"he felt depressed and miserable""a message of hope for suffering humanity""wretched prisoners huddled in stinking cages"4. 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"