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Definition of Pathetic

1. Adjective. Deserving or inciting pity. "A wretched life"

2. Adjective. Inspiring mixed contempt and pity. "Pitiful exhibition of cowardice"

3. Adjective. Inspiring scornful pity. "How silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"

Definition of Pathetic

1. a. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

Definition of Pathetic

1. Adjective. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion. ¹

2. Adjective. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pathetic

1. arousing pity [adj]

Medical Definition of Pathetic

1. 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. 2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, especially. Pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." "No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic." (E. Porter) Pathetic muscle, 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. Origin: L. Patheticus, Gr, fr, to suffer: cf. F. Pathetique. See Pathos. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathetic

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pathematic aphasia pather pathergasia pathergy pathers pathetic (current term) pathetic fallacies pathetic fallacy pathetic nerve pathetical

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