Pathetic - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |pəˈθetɪk|  American pronunciation of the word pathetic
Brit.  |pəˈθetɪk|  British pronunciation of the word pathetic

adjective

- deserving or inciting pity (syn: hapless, miserable, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched)
the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic
- inspiring mixed contempt and pity (syn: pitiable, pitiful)
their efforts were pathetic
- inspiring scornful pity (syn: ridiculous, silly)

Extra examples

The blind, old dog was a pathetic sight.

The team was pretty bad last year, but this year they're downright pathetic.

The story he told was a pathetic attempt to cover up a lie.

His car is a pathetic piece of junk.

You are pathetic.

You're pathetic! Here, let me do it.

I know it sounds pathetic now, but at the time I was frightened.

Vic made a pathetic attempt to apologise.

The child looked a pathetic sight.

She whimpered pathetically.

What pathetic excuses!

...contemptuous comments about the baseball team's pathetic showings...

...the only thing more pathetic than the pop psychologist who gushed such drool was the public that lapped it up...

His behaviour has been too pathetic for words.

...“pathetic fallacy” is the literary term for the ascription of human feelings or motives to inanimate natural elements...

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