10-28-2016, 10:04 AM
Adjective
<div>1. Arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness.
‘The Jaguars fan looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort him.’
2. informal Miserably inadequate.
‘His record a pathetic for an NFL coach.’
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Origin
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Late 16th century (in the sense ‘affecting the emotions’): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos sensitive, based on pathos suffering.
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