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pathetic
adj
- 1. Moving one to pity; touching, heart-rending, poignant or pitiful.
- Example: her pathetic sobs
- Thesaurus: pitiful, touching, affecting, moving, poignant, plaintive.
- Hopelessly inadequate
- Example: a pathetic attempt.
- Thesaurus: miserable, deplorable, contemptible, worthless, pitiable, meagre, inadequate, puny, poor.
adverb
