adj. 1
In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
adj. 2
Of the weather, extremely unpleasant due to being cold, wet, overcast, etc.
adj. 3
Wretched; worthless; mean; contemptible.
adj. 4
Causing unhappiness or misery.

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Example sentences

pathetic The education in that institute is simply pathetic.
pitiful The pitiful tale fetched tears from the girl.
deplorable The roads of this city are in deplorable condition.
pitiable Jason is no bad guy, but rather a pitiable loser.
depressed Tom said Mary has been feeling depressed recently.
disconsolate A wilder or more disconsolate dwelling it was perhaps difficult to conceive.

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

3 letters: bad¹, low¹, sad¹
4 letters: mean¹, poor¹, grim¹, vile¹, glum¹
5 letters: sorry², moody², lousy²
6 letters: tragic², filthy², gloomy², dismal², dreary², abject², sordid², meager², stingy², paltry², meagre, measly², woeful², crummy²
7 letters: unhappy³, pitiful³, hapless², forlorn², joyless, scrubby², doleful²
8 letters: pathetic³, wretched², desolate³, grievous², dejected³, pitiable⁴
9 letters: suffering³, depressed², worthless², afflicted³, sorrowful³, humorless³, execrable⁴, heartsick, cheerless
10 letters: despicable⁴, melancholy⁴, deplorable⁴, despondent³, lamentable⁴, humourless
11 letters: unfortunate⁴
12 letters: contemptible⁴, disconsolate
13 letters: uncomfortable⁵

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (sorry² = 2 syllables).