What (who) is pathetic - definition
CHELSEA GIACCO
Pathetic (disambiguation)
pathetic
1.
If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them.
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight...
She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
ADJ
• pathetically
She was pathetically thin.
ADV
2.
If you describe someone or something as pathetic, you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good.
What pathetic excuses...
It's a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.
ADJ [disapproval]
• pathetically
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.
ADV: ADV adj
pathetic
a.
Affecting, touching, moving, melting, tender, plaintive.
Pathetic
·adj Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
II. Pathetic ·adj Affecting or moving the tender emotions, ·esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
Wikipedia
Pathetic
Pathetic may refer to:
- Pathos, the rhetorical appeal to emotion
- The pathetic fallacy, an over-personification of inanimate objects
- "Pathetic", a song by Blink-182 from their 1997 album Dude Ranch
- "Pathetic", a song by Lamb of God from their 2006 album Sacrament
Pronunciation examples for pathetic
1. -Pathetic.
-What's pathetic?
Two Weeks Notice (2002)
2. Pathetic.
Mindhunters (2004)
3. are pathetic.
Restoring the Soul of Business _ Rishad Tobaccowala _ Talks at Google
4. You're pathetic!
Language Hacking _ Benny Lewis _ Talks at Google
5. Pathetic, powerless.
Mindhunters (2004)
Examples of use of pathetic
1. I know it‘s pathetic but at least I know it‘s pathetic.
2. Shadow Home Secretary, David Davis, said: "This is a pathetic scheme that has had a pathetic outcome.
3. He called Braverman‘s act pathetic and unbelievable.
4. Article continues The demonstrations were pathetic.
5. He‘s FICTIONAL! – Kimberley, Aldershot, Hants Totally pathetic.