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    [Adjective]  | "pa*thet*ic" | \ pə-ˈthe-tik \


    1: having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity

    2: marked by sorrow or melancholy : sad

    3: pitifully inferior or inadequate


    Origin: 1591 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French & Late Latin; Middle French pathetique "provoking emotion," borrowed from Late Latin pathēticus "affecting the emotions," borrowed from Greek pathētikós "capable of feeling, emotional, receptive, passive," from pathētós "subject to suffering, liable to external influence" (verbal adjective from the base path- "experience, undergo, suffer") + -ikos {see: |-ic:1|-ic:1} {mat|pathos|};

    [Noun]  | "pathetic fallacy" 


    1: the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature (as in cruel sea)


    Origin: 1856 ;

    [Adjective]  | "pathetic" 


    1: deserving of one's pity;


      * e.g., " ... the plight of the homeless family was quite pathetic "





    2: causing unhappiness;


      * e.g., " ... a pathetic story that made her cry "





    3: deserving pitying scorn (as for inadequacy);


      * e.g., " ... the crowd mercilessly booed the boxer's pathetic performance "



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     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: 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)

      * e.g.,  ... (1)You never worked any hard, always taking, never giving, nor deserving, and now you dare to beg me in tears for money... 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: A person who is so stupid that you feel sorry for him.

      * e.g.,  ... Albert is the most pathetic man I ever saw in my life...! 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: everybody who defines themself in an urban dictionary definition.

      * e.g.,  ... every other fucking urbandictonary submission that comes in for me to accept or reject. "shes so pretty and smart! what an erin!" 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: a dirty old man checking out girls in his personal fitness class but saying hes only looking at their belts

      * e.g.,  ... no kacie im just looking at your belt not your tits and ass. but in case your wondering there great 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: 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

      * e.g.,  ... "It's 6:00 in the morning and you've already played 10 rounds of Pathwords. You're Pathetic!" 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: inability to function normally or provide a service that meets basic expectations

      * e.g.,  ... He couldnt even barbeque the chicken thighs properly. He was pathetic. 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: Anyone who complains at a internet website just so they can get email.

      * e.g.,  ... i am pathetic 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: 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.

      * e.g.,  ... The crying girl looked so pathetic, that I knelt down to comfort her. "I wasn't looking at your ass I was admiring your hair!" 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: In other words, you pretty much fucked up.

      * e.g.,  ... If you still use nappies when ure 4 not counting those with health problems 

     [ "pathetic" ]

    1: Someone, or something, that sucks so bad you feel kinda bad for it.

      * e.g.,  ... Emo is incredibly pathetic. 

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