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"

Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.

Arousing sorrow and pity; touching; as, her grief was pathetic.

Pathetically.

Affecting the tender emotions: touching.

Exciting pity; touching.

Touching the feelings; arousing compassion. pathetical.

Affecting or moving the tender passions.

The trochlear nerve and the superior oblique muscle of the eye.

O pale, pathetic Christ- I worship thee! – The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Suddenly their eagerness, their excitement, struck her as being pathetic. – Kildares of Storm by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

The withered bodies of the children seemed not nearly so pathetic! – The Title Market by Emily Post

Afterwards Madeline listened to the pathetic history of Olive's sorrow. – Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

Her pathetic voice recalled him. – Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

After a wild and melancholy symphony, a voice of more than magic expression swelled into an air so pathetic and tender, that it seemed to breathe the very soul of love. – A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffe

He was a pathetic figure. – The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey

It is a most pathetic case. – Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine Last Updated: February 20, 2009

It was " Ye banks and braes" this time, and when the pathetic old air was ended Salome sighed. – A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

Her sorrow is, I think, pathetic. – Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony Trollope

The Man Without a Country would lose his pathetic appeal, or would at any rate lose much of it. – An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen

Then she added with a pathetic sigh of bitterness: " My father would prefer it, I think. – Petticoat Rule by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Both of them looked rather pathetic. – The Woman With The Fan by Robert Hichens

I had also a good deal of hospital work, which to me was full of pathetic interest. – With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

But it's rather pathetic really. – A Crooked Mile by Oliver Onions

There was something pathetic in the Vicomte's tone which touched Enguerrand's warm if light heart. – The Parisians, Book 6. by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Dickens was in his own time thought to be a master of the pathetic equally with the mirthful strain. – The Age of Tennyson by Hugh Walker

Rather pathetic, I should say. – The Loom of Youth by Alec Waugh

And the boy of those days for him was more pathetic than much that is known to the world as sorrow. – The Complete PG Edition of The Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill