Synonyms of the word pathetic


PATHETICCONTEMPTIBLE - HAPLESS - MISERABLE - MISFORTUNATE - PITEOUS - PITIABLE - PITIFUL - POOR - RIDICULOUS - SILLY - UNDIGNIFIED - UNFORTUNATE - WRETCHED

pathetic

  • adj. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
  • adj. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
  • adj. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

contemptible

  • adj. deserving contempt.

hapless

  • adj. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
  • adj. Devoid of talent or skill.

miserable

  • adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
  • adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
  • adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
  • adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
  • adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
  • n. A miserable person; a wretch.

misfortunate

  • adj. Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.

piteous

  • adj. pitiful; provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
  • adj. (obsolete) pious; devout.
  • adj. (obsolete) compassionate; tender.
  • adj. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful.

pitiable

  • adj. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

pitiful

  • adj. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
  • adj. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
  • adj. Very small (of an amount or number).

poor

  • adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  • adj. Of low quality.
  • adj. Used to express pity.
  • adj. Deficient in a specified way.
  • adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
  • adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  • n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

ridiculous

  • adj. Deserving of ridicule; foolish; absurd.

silly

  • adj. Laughable or amusing through foolishness or a foolish appearance.
  • adj. (chiefly Scotland, obsolete) Blessed, particularly.
  • adj. (now chiefly Scotland and Northern England, rare) Pitiful, inspiring compassion, particularly.
  • adj. (now rural Britain, rare) Simple, plain, particularly.
  • adj. Mentally simple, foolish, particularly.
  • adj. (cricket, of a fielding position) Very close to the batsman, facing the bowler; closer than short.
  • adv. (now regional or colloquial) Sillily: in a silly manner.
  • n. (with 'the') The class of silly people collectively.
  • n. (colloquial) A silly person.
  • n. (affectionate, gently pejorative) A term of address.
  • n. (colloquial) A mistake.

undignified

  • adj. lacking in or damaging to dignity.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of undignify.

unfortunate

  • adj. not favored by fortune.
  • adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
  • n. An unlucky person.

wretched

  • adj. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;…
  • adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
  • adj. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
  • v. Misspelling of retched.

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