What is a pathetic person?
If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them. If you describe someone or something as pathetic, you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good.
What is the meaning of pathetic girl?
1 adj If you describe a person or animal as pathetic, you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them. The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight…, She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
What is the original meaning of pathetic?
capable of feeling
Pathetic can be traced back further to the Greek pathētikos, meaning “capable of feeling.” It was preceded, slightly, by the related pathetical (which has the same meaning as the early senses of pathetic, but seem to have fallen out of use before taking on the “absurd” or “inadequate” ones) and pathetically.
How do you use the word pathetic?
inspiring scornful pity.
- The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight.
- I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.
- You’re pathetic!
- He derided my singing as pathetic.
- His tears were pathetic to witness.
- The starving children were a pathetic sight.
Does pathetic mean worthless?
useless or not effective in annoying way.
Does pathetic mean useless?
Is it rude to call someone pathetic?
Something pathetic inspires pity and contempt. If your backhand is pathetic, you probably shouldn’t try out for the tennis team. These days, when you see the word pathetic, it’s pretty clear that it’s no compliment. This is an insulting word for things that are so bad they bum you out.
How do you describe pathetic?
1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity. 2 : marked by sorrow or melancholy : sad. 3 : pitifully inferior or inadequate the restaurant’s pathetic service. 4 : absurd, laughable a pathetic costume.
What is a pathetic situation?
adjective. causing or evoking pity, sympathetic sadness, sorrow, etc.; pitiful; pitiable: Conditions at the refugee camp were far more pathetic than anything our training had prepared us for. Informal. miserably or contemptibly inadequate: In return for our investment we get a pathetic three percent interest.
What is the word for pathetic in Tagalog?
Translation for word Pathetic in Tagalog is : kalunus-lunos.
Where are the pathetic sights in Jerusalem Tagalog?
Oh, the pathetic sights in Jerusalem! O, kahabag – abag na mga tanawin sa Jerusalem! At that same time, 1,600 miles [2,575 km] to the west the pathetic survivors of the Donner Party straggled down the slopes of the Sierra Nevada Mountains into the Sacramento Valley.
What does the proverb ” a pathetic lot ” mean?
The pathetic lot of the envious person is set forth in the inspired proverb: “A man of envious [literally, “bad; evil”] eye is bestirring himself after valuable things, but he does not know that want itself will come upon him.”
What does the Bible say about a pathetic story?
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion. What a pathetic and tragic story. Kahabag – habag at kalunus-lunos na kuwento. (Ps 79:1-3; Jer 16:4) The pathetic picture of Rizpah’s refusing to abandon her dead sons’ bodies, perhaps for months, until they were finally accorded a burial vividly portrays the importance attached to the matter. —2Sa 21:9-14.
