1 making you feel pity or sadness:
a pathetic and lonely old man * The starving children were a pathetic sight.
2 (informal, disapproving) weak, useless and not successful:
a pathetic excuse / joke * She made a pathetic attempt to smile. * I know it sounds pathetic, but I can't ride a bike. * You're pathetic!
pathetically adverb:
He cried pathetically. * a pathetically shy woman
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for pathetic is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is pathetic a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, pathetic is tagged as adjective.
Does pathetic appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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