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pathetic (oh)



[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French; Origin: pathetique, from Latin, from Greek, from paschein 'to suffer']
something or someone that is pathetic is so useless, unsuccessful, or weak that they annoy you
::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.
making you feel pity or sympathy
::The child looked a pathetic sight.
-- pathetically /-kli/ adv
::She whimpered pathetically.