[pəˈθɛtɪk], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness
(e.g: she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her)

- miserably inadequate; of very low standard
(e.g: he's a pathetic excuse for a man)

- relating to the emotions


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Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘affecting the emotions’): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos ‘sensitive’, based on pathos ‘suffering’