'Misfortunate' definitions:
Definition of 'misfortunate'
From: WordNet
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Misfortunate'
From: GCIDE
- Misfortunate \Mis*for"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a. Producing misfortune. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]