Definitions for pathetic

pathetic pa·thet·ic

Spelling: [puh-thet-ik]
IPA: /pəˈθɛt ɪk/

Pathetic is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 252 anagrams from letters in pathetic (acehiptt).

Definitions for pathetic

adjective

  1. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable:
  2. affecting or moving the emotions.
  3. pertaining to or caused by the emotions.
  4. miserably or contemptibly inadequate:

Origin of pathetic

1590-1600; Late Latin pathēticus Greek pathētikós sensitive equivalent to pathēt(ós) made or liable to suffer (verbid of páschein to suffer + -ikos -ic

Examples for pathetic

Fortunately, they are drawn from a pathetic preterite far beneath the contempt of our cultural elite.

Conning people into buying a book to prepare for an "Ebola apocalypse" is not just irresponsible, it's pathetic.

There was a pathetic pleading in the dulled eyes with which he regarded the Inspector.

You must have your soup, and (I do not mean to be pathetic) what is soup without salt?

Telling people that you knew her when would just be pathetic.

But this had to be one of the most pathetic presidential wardrobes in American history.

Her fingers were stiff, but so was her will: the way she stuck to her work was pathetic.

The fate of Owthorne, a village once existing not far from Withernsea, is pathetic.

The father looked at Mary with a reproach that was pathetic.

And we can listen to the pathetic, creepy bravado of a former vice president, wrong on nearly every decision he made.

Word Value for pathetic
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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