Pathetic

Adjective

 * 1) Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
 * The old man’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
 * 1) Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
 * You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.
 * You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic.

Synonyms

 * pitiful, wretched, miserable
 * disgraceful, shameful, despicable, dishonorable

Derived terms

 * patheticism
 * patheticness

Related terms

 * pathos

Adverbs for Pathetic
touchingly; unusually; uncommonly; pitiably; infinitely;  altogether;  poignantly; deeply; grievously; appallingly; shockingly; oddly; immeasurably; heartbreakingly; extraordinarily; dreadfully.

Thesaurus
affecting, affective, afflictive, beggarly, beneath contempt, bitter, bleak, cheap, cheerless, cheesy, comfortless, common, contemptible, crummy, deplorable, depressing, depressive, despicable, discomforting, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dreary, emotional, emotive, feeble, gaudy, gimcracky, grievous, heartrending, inadequate, joyless, lamentable, mean, measly, meretricious, miserable, mournful, moving, painful, paltry, petty, piddling, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, puny, regrettable, rubbishy, rueful, sad, saddening, scrubby, scruffy, scummy, scurvy, scuzzy, shabby, sharp, shoddy, sore, sorrowful, sorry, stirring, touching, tragic, trashy, trumpery, two-for-a-cent, two-for-a-penny, twopenny, twopenny-halfpenny, uncomfortable, valueless, vile, woebegone, woeful, worthless, wretched

Etymology
From patheticus, from  παθητικός:, from παθητός:, from παθείν:.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 可憐, 可怜
 * Czech: dojemný
 * Dutch: meelijwekkend, zielig, deerniswekkend
 * Estonian: liigutav
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: gefühlvoll,, mitleiderregend,


 * Hebrew: קורע לב
 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: patetic, emoţionant
 * Russian: жалостный, душераздирающий
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 可笑
 * Dutch: sneu, zielig
 * Estonian: haletsusväärne
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, jämmerlich
 * Hebrew: פאטתי, פאטתית
 * Hungarian:


 * Lithuanian: apgailėtinas apgailėtina
 * Norwegian: Patetisk
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: disperat
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: pomilovanja vreden
 * Spanish:


 * : patetisk
 * : patetisk, ynkelig