[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

misfortunate \misfor"tunate\ ?; 135, a.
   producing misfortune. obs.
   1913 webster

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

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"; "oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted
           limbs"; "a wretched life" syn: hapless, miserable,
            pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor,
           wretched
see also:
hapless miserable pathetic piteous pitiable pitiful 
poor wretched 

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