Deserving or inciting pity:
— A hapless victim.

synonyms: miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched.

Roget 735: unfortunate, unblest^†, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous^†, unprosperous; hoodooed [U.S.]; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor etc. 804; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.    planet-struck, devoted; born under an evil star, born with a wooden ladle in one's mouth; ill-fated, ill-starred, ill-omened.    adverse, untoward; disastrous, calamitous, ruinous, dire, deplorable.    ... show more

Polish: mizerny, nędzny