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misfortunate |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Misfortunate \Mis*for"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a. Producing misfortune. [Obs.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: misfortunate adj : 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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" [syn: {hapless}, {miserable}, {pathetic}, {piteous}, {pitiable}, {pitiful}, {poor}, {wretched}]
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