pathetic

Adjective Satellite

• deserving or inciting pity; ; ; - Galsworthy
  • "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"
• inspiring mixed contempt and pity
  • "their efforts were pathetic"
• inspiring scornful pity; - Dashiell Hammett

Adj

• Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
• Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
• Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
• Trochlear.

Adjective

• Arousing pity, sadness, or contempt.

Examples

• His score was so pathetic, he considered challenging his own plays out of desperation.
• The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
• You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.
• You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic.

Synonyms

hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, ridiculous, silly, wretched, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, atrabiliary, atrabilious, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, cheesed off, choleric, cross, deplorable, depressing, despicable, disgraceful, dishonorable, distressing, enraged, fit to be tied, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grievous, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ired, ireful, irritated, lachrymable, lamentable, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, mournful, p'd off, pathetic, pathetisad, pissed, pissed off, pissy, pitisome, raging, ready to be tied, regrettable, rueful, sad, saddening, scornful, screwfaced, seething, shameful, sore, sorrowful, spitting chips, splenetic, steaming, tragic, unhappy, up on one's ear, upsetting, vexed, waxy, wode, woebegone, woeful, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped

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pathos

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