PATHETIC
\pɐθˈɛtɪk], \pɐθˈɛtɪk], \p_ɐ_θ_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of PATHETIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
By Princeton University
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Pathetically.
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Affecting the tender emotions: touching.
By Daniel Lyons
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Pathetically.
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Touching the feelings; arousing compassion. pathetical.
By James Champlin Fernald
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1. Causing an emotion, especially of sorrow or pity. 2. Noting the fourth cranial nerve, nervus patheticus, nervus trochlearis.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
