What is the meaning of pitiful?

adjective

• Inspiring mixed contempt and pity.
  • usage: "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
  • synonyms: pathetic, pitiable
• Bad; unfortunate.
  • usage: "my finances were in a deplorable state"; "a lamentable decision"; "her clothes were in sad shape"; "a sorry state of affairs"
  • synonyms: deplorable, distressing, lamentable, sad, sorry
• Deserving or inciting pity.
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, poor, wretched