pitiful
adj.adj. describing something that is so sad or weak that it makes you feel sorry for it. It can also describe something that is very bad or not good enough.
adj. evoking a sense of compassion or contempt due to suffering, inadequacy, or smallness. Often used to describe an amount or quality that is disappointingly low.
The hungry kitten let out a pitiful cry.
The team's performance was pitiful, as they failed to score a single point during the entire game.
The refugees lived in pitiful conditions, lacking basic necessities like clean water and adequate shelter after the storm destroyed their village.
From Middle English pityful, piteful, piteeful. By surface analysis, pit(i) + -ful.
Often used predicatively after linking verbs like 'look' or 'seem', or attributively before a noun.