'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]