1 : marked by or producing unhappiness; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series
2 : depressed
3 : filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"
4 : causing discomfort; "the unhappy truth"
5 : causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"
6 : 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"
adjectif
1 : generalized feeling of distress
2 : experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
