helpless, pity, sorrow, grief
Example sentences
彼は事業に失敗して今や全く哀れなものだ。
He failed in his business and now is a total wreck.
彼はしょんぼりして、哀れに見えた。
He looked piteous, like a drowned mouse.
私は彼を非常に哀れに思ったけれども、助けることができなかった。
Much as I pitied him, I could not help him.
More N3 vocabulary
- 時(1) time, hour, (2) occasion, moment
- 夜中midnight, dead of night
- 当時at that time, in those days
- 面倒trouble, difficulty, care, attention
- 抜くto extract, to omit, to surpass, to draw out, to unplug
- 基basis