pathetic

  • (s) deserving or inciting pity
    • a hapless victim
    • miserable victims of war
    • "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy
    • piteous appeals for help
    • pitiable homeless children
    • a pitiful fate
    • Oh, you poor thing
    • his poor distorted limbs
    • a wretched life
    hapless, misfortunate, piteous, poor, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, wretched,
  • (s) inspiring mixed contempt and pity
    • their efforts were pathetic
    • pitiable lack of character
    • pitiful exhibition of cowardice
    pitiable, pitiful,
  • (s) inspiring scornful pity
    • "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"- Dashiell Hammett
    ridiculous, silly,

Synonyms

hapless misfortunate piteous poor miserable pitiable pitiful wretched ridiculous silly

Words of close approximity

pathetically pathetic fallacy