- 1. a. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. Source: opted
- 2. a. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. Source: opted
- 3. adj. deserving or inciting pity Source: wordnet
- 4. adj. inspiring mixed contempt and pity Source: wordnet
- 5. adj. inspiring scornful pity Source: wordnet
- 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. Source: webster
- 7. j:100 s. inspiring mixed contempt and pity s. inspiring scornful pity Source: ecdict
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