Thesaurus: pathetic

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1. a. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
2. a. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
3. adj. deserving or inciting pity
4. adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity
5. adj. inspiring scornful pity
6. 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.] 2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." Macaulay. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.
7. j:100 s. inspiring mixed contempt and pity s. inspiring scornful pity