About The Word Pathetic
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Pathetic
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What's The Definition Of Pathetic?
[adj] inspiring scornful pity; "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
[adj] inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice" [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"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" Synonyms | Synonyms for Pathetic: contemptible | hapless | miserable | misfortunate | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | poor | ridiculous | silly | undignified | unfortunate | wretched Related Terms | Find terms related to Pathetic: affecting | affective | afflictive | beggarly | beneath contempt | bitter | bleak | cheap | cheerless | cheesy | comfortless | common | contemptible | crummy | deplorable | depressing | depressive | despicable | discomforting | dismal | dismaying | distressful | distressing | doleful | dolorific | dolorogenic | dolorous | dreary | emotional | emotive | feeble | gaudy | gimcracky | grievous | heartrending | inadequate | joyless | lamentable | mean | measly | meretricious | miserable | mournful | moving | painful | paltry | petty | piddling | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | plaintive | poignant | poor | puny | regrettable | rubbishy | rueful | sad | saddening | scrubby | scruffy | scummy | scurvy | scuzzy | shabby | sharp | shoddy | sore | sorrowful | sorry | stirring | touching | tragic | trashy | trumpery | two-for-a-cent | two-for-a-penny | twopenny | twopenny-halfpenny | uncomfortable | valueless | vile | woebegone | woeful | worthless | wretched See Also | Pathetic In Webster's Dictionary \Pa*thet"ic\, a. [L. patheticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, to
suffer: cf. F. path['e]tique. See {Pathos}.]
1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.]
2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or
grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
``Pathetic action.'' --Macaulay.
No theory of the passions can teach a man to be
pathetic. --E. Porter.
{Pathetic muscle} (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the
eye.
{Pathetic nerve} (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear,
nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic,
muscle of the eye.
{The pathetic}, a style or manner adapted to arouse the
tender emotions.
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