LekhoriLekhoriArousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.
From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, s...
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