Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: pathetic
IPA transcription: [pəθ'ɛtɪk]
Pronunciations of pathetic
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
    Meaning: 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"
  • Synonyms: pathetic, pitiable, pitiful
    Meaning: inspiring mixed contempt and pity; "their efforts were pathetic"; "pitiable lack of character"; "pitiful exhibition of cowardice"
Usage examples
  • It strikes me as rather pathetic
  • Happily such pathetic incidents are relatively not numerous.
  • While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.
  • Ralph Hoskin was very poor: his pathetic pictures did not find many purchasers, and he lived principally by teaching.
  • An automobile honked past, and Miss Terry shuddered, recalling the pathetic end of the Flanton Dog, which had given her quite a turn.
  • I thought the pretty bird would surely be safe here, but one day when I called, expecting to see a growing family, I was shocked to find a pathetic little skeleton in the nest.
  • Her irritable mood had vanished, but Jane could see that she was on the lookout for some one all the time, although she made the most pathetic little efforts to conceal her watchfulness.
  • Her graceful figure was as rigid as a statue, her eyes were fixed, her hands were tightly clasped across her breast; her lips moved as they murmured with pathetic heart-breaking persistence,--
  • Lieutenant Baldwin and the buffalo were soon far away, and when our horses had quieted down we recalled that shots had been fired in another direction, and looking about, we saw a pathetic sight.
  • Love lying in her heart had made her a little more shy than formerly in seeking him, but her straightforward way of taking whatever she wanted made her transparent little attempts at concealment very pathetic.
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