misfortunate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

misfortunate
    adj 1: 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" [syn: {hapless}, {miserable},
           {misfortunate}, {pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable},
           {pitiful}, {poor}, {wretched}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Misfortunate \Mis*for"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a.
   Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
   [1913 Webster]