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pathetic
[puh-thet-ik]
adjective
causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable.
Conditions at the refugee camp were far more pathetic than anything our training had prepared us for.
Synonyms: , , ,Informal.miserably or contemptibly inadequate.
In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest. The carpenter we hired is pathetic.
Archaic.pertaining to, caused by, or affecting the emotions.
pathetic outbursts.
Synonyms: , ,
pathetic
/ əˈθɛɪ /
adjective
evoking or expressing pity, sympathy, etc
distressingly inadequate
the old man sat huddled in front of a pathetic fire
informalludicrously or contemptibly uninteresting or worthless
the standard of goalkeeping in amateur football today is pathetic
obsoleteof or affecting the feelings
plural noun
pathetic sentiments
Other 51Թ Forms
- pathetically adverb
- patheticalness noun
- hyperpathetic adjective
- hyperpathetically adverb
- quasi-pathetic adjective
- quasi-pathetically adverb
- unpathetic adjective
- unpathetically adverb
- 貹ˈٳپ adverb
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pathetic1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of pathetic1
Example Sentences
Reform MP Lee Anderson said: "This Labour government blaming small boat crossings on the weather is like blaming the housing crisis on homebuilders - it's pathetic."
Shelley told BBC Spotlight she felt "lonely" and "pathetic" after being dropped off at the door of the Ulster Hospital psychiatric ward without her daughter, but said staff tried their best.
They were more like pathetic background extras, or bizarro-world inversions of the starving children from charity ads of bygone years: You can save Farmer Piet from white genocide, or you can turn the page.
Yet, he’s pathetic at maintaining order, pasting a misspelled sign on his police car that reads: Your being manipulated.
Today’s conservative convolutions are sometimes pathetic enough to make me almost sympathize with religious escapism.
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