English-Thai Dictionary

pathetic

ADJ น่าสงสาร  น่าสลดใจ  ซึ่ง กระทบ จิตใจ  affecting miserable sympathetic touching na-song-san

 

pathetic

ADJ ไม่ เพียงพอ  แร้นแค้น  mai-piang-por

 

pathetical

ADJ น่าสงสาร  na-song-san

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PATHETIC, PATHETICAL

a.[Gr. passion; to suffer. ] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.

 

PATHETIC

n.Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions. A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic, as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction.

 

PATHETICALLY

adv. In such a manner as to excite the tender passions.

 

PATHETICALNESS

n.The quality of moving the tender passions.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

PATHETIC

Pa *thet "ic, a. Etym: [L. patheticus, Gr. pathétique. See Pathos. ]

 

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.

 

PATHETICAL

PATHETICAL Pa *thet "ic *al, a.

 

Defn: Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa *thet "ic *al *ly, adv. -- Pa *thet "ic *al *ness, n.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

pathetic

pa thet ic |pəˈTHetik pəˈθɛdɪk | ▶adjective 1 arousing pity, esp. through vulnerability or sadness: she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her. • informal miserably inadequate: his test scores in Chemistry were pathetic. 2 archaic relating to the emotions. DERIVATIVES pa thet i cal ly |-(ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘affecting the emotions ’): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos ‘sensitive, ’ based on pathos ‘suffering. ’

 

pathetic fallacy

pa thet ic fal la cy |pəˈθɛdɪk ˈfæləsi | ▶noun the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, esp. in art and literature.

 

Oxford Dictionary

pathetic

path |et ¦ic |pəˈθɛtɪk | ▶adjective 1 arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness: she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her. 2 informal miserably inadequate: he's a pathetic excuse for a man. 3 archaic relating to the emotions. DERIVATIVES pathetically adverb ORIGIN late 16th cent. (in the sense ‘affecting the emotions ’): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos ‘sensitive ’, based on pathos ‘suffering ’.

 

pathetic fallacy

path |et ¦ic fal |lacy ▶noun [ mass noun ] the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals, especially in art and literature.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

pathetic

pathetic adjective 1 a pathetic groan: pitiful, pitiable, piteous, moving, touching, poignant, plaintive, distressing, upsetting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, harrowing, wretched, forlorn. 2 informal a pathetic excuse: feeble, woeful, sorry, poor, pitiful, lamentable, deplorable, contemptible, inadequate, paltry, insufficient, unsatisfactory.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

pathetic

pathetic adjective 1 he made a small, pathetic groan: pitiful, pitiable, piteous, to be pitied, moving, touching, poignant, plaintive, stirring; affecting, distressing, disquieting, disturbing, upsetting, miserable, heartbreaking, heart-rending, agonizing, harrowing, mortifying, sad, wretched, poor, forlorn, tragic, doleful, mournful, woeful; rare distressful. ANTONYMS comical; cheerful. 2 informal he made some pathetic excuse about the train being delayed: feeble, woeful, sorry, poor, pitiful, lamentable, deplorable, miserable, wretched, contemptible, despicable, inadequate, meagre, paltry, insufficient, negligible, insubstantial, unsatisfactory, worthless. ANTONYMS admirable, excellent.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

pathetic

pa thet ic ｟まれ ｠-i cal /pəθétɪk //-k (ə )l /〖語源は 「哀れみ (pathos )を感じやすい 」〗形容詞 more ～; most ～1 ｟くだけて けなして ｠〈人 物が 〉 (いらいらするほど )ひどい , 役に立たない , 弱い ▸ a pretty pathetic attempt かなりひどい試み 2 〈人 動物 物が 〉哀れな (pitiful ), 寂しい , 弱い , 無力な ▸ a pathetic old cow 哀れな年老いた牛 ～̀ f á llacy 〖the ～〗感情の虚偽 〘無生物に人間的感情があるように表現すること 〙.

 

pathetically

pa th é t i cal ly 副詞 いらいらするほど 〈ひどいなど 〉; かわいそうに思えるほど, 感傷的に .