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| Date: | 1500-1600 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | pathétique, from Latin, from Greek, from paschein 'to suffer' |
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pa‧thet‧ic S3
1 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.
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.2 making you feel pity or sympathy : The child looked a pathetic sight.
The child looked a pathetic sight. —pathetically adverb: She whimpered pathetically.
adverb: She whimpered pathetically.
