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pathetic
adjective
1 pathetic
Deserving or inciting pity:
— The shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic.
synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched.
Roget 830:
causing pain,
hurting
etc.
v.;
hurtful
etc.
(bad)
649;
painful;
dolorific†,
dolorous;
unpleasant;
unpleasing,
displeasing;
disagreeable,
unpalatable,
bitter,
distasteful;
uninviting;
unwelcome;
undesirable,
undesired;
obnoxious;
unacceptable,
unpopular,
thankless.
unsatisfactory,
untoward,
unlucky,
uncomfortable.
distressing;
afflicting,
afflictive;
joyless,
cheerless,
comfortless;
dismal,
disheartening;
depressing,
depressive;
dreary,
melancholy,
grievous,
piteous;
woeful,
rueful,
mournful,
deplorable,
pitiable,
lamentable;
sad,
affecting,
touching,
pathetic.
irritating,
provoking,
stinging,
annoying,
aggravating,
mortifying,
galling;
unaccommodating,
invidious,
vexatious;
troublesome,
tiresome,
irksome,
wearisome;
plaguing,
plaguy†;
awkward.
importunate;
teasing,
pestering,
bothering,
harassing,
worrying,
tormenting,
carking.
intolerable,
insufferable,
insupportable;
unbearable,
unendurable;
past bearing;
not to be borne,
not to be endured;
more than flesh and blood can bear;
enough to drive one mad,
enough to provoke a saint,
enough to make a parson swear,
enough to gag a maggot.
shocking,
terrific,
grim,
appalling,
crushing;
dreadful,
fearful,
frightful;
thrilling,
tremendous,
dire;
heart-breaking,
heart-rending,
heart-wounding,
heart-corroding,
heart-sickening;
harrowing,
rending.
odious,
hateful,
execrable,
repulsive,
repellent,
abhorrent;
horrid,
horrible,
horrific,
horrifying;
offensive.
nauseous,
nauseating;
disgusting,
sickening,
revolting;
nasty;
loathsome,
loathful†;
fulsome;
vile
etc.
(bad)
649;
hideous
etc.
846.
sharp,
acute,
sore,
severe,
grave,
hard,
harsh,
cruel,
biting,
caustic;
cutting,
corroding,
consuming,
racking,
excruciating,
searching,
grinding,
grating,
agonizing;
envenomed;
catheretic†,
pyrotic [Med.].
ruinous,
disastrous,
calamitous,
tragical;
desolating,
withering;
burdensome,
onerous,
oppressive;
cumbrous,
cumbersome.
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Polish: mizerny, nędzny
2 pathetic
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity:
— Their efforts were pathetic.
synonyms: pitiable, pitiful.
Polish: żałosny
3 pathetic
Moby 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 ... show more.
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