Pathetic

What do we mean by pathetic?

Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion. adjective

Arousing or deserving of scornful pity. adjective

Expressing or showing passion; passionate.

Full of pathos; affecting or moving the feelings; exciting pity, sorrow, grief, or other tender emotion; affecting: as, a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

In anatomy, trochlear: in designation of or reference to the fourth crania1 nerve.

A trochlear or pathetic nerve; a patheticus. noun

Trochlear: in reference to the superior oblique muscle.

Same as patheticus, 2. noun

Expressing or showing anger; passionate. adjective

Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos. adjective

The superior oblique muscle of the eye. adjective

The fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. adjective

A style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions. adjective

Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion. adjective

Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy. adjective

Inspiring mixed contempt and pity adjective

Inspiring scornful pity adjective

Deserving or inciting pity adjective

Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.

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

Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

Trochlear.

A word defining complete pity and sadness, a maximum state of misery. Something that is weaker than it should and could be, something poor in existence.(1) Also commonly being used at immature and exaggerated deeds.(2) Urban Dictionary

A person who is so stupid that you feel sorry for him. Urban Dictionary

Everybody who defines themself in an urban dictionary definition. Urban Dictionary

A dirty old man checking out girls in his personal fitness class but saying hes only looking at their belts Urban Dictionary

A sorry, exhausted, frustrated state of mind, self-inflicted as the result of an obsession with beating one's own score in Facebook's Pathwords game Urban Dictionary

Inability to function normally or provide a service that meets basic expectations Urban Dictionary

Anyone who complains at a internet website just so they can get email. Urban Dictionary

Looking or acting miserable, often because of grief. Online dating, trying to get chicks on Xbox Live, and staring at you female classmates with stupid excuses. Urban Dictionary

In other words, you pretty much fucked up. Urban Dictionary

Someone, or something, that sucks so bad you feel kinda bad for it. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to pathetic:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word pathetic:
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Words that rhyme with pathetic:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe pathetic:
most, loftier, true, distressing, dismal, ciceronian, least, little, truest, natural, smallest.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective pathetic:
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Words that sound like pathetic:
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