pathetic

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
    — The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
  2. Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
    — You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.
  3. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. obsolete
    — On a certain Good Friday, in what year we are not told, an especially moving and pathetic sermon was preached in the Cathedral by Father John Texeda, upon the sufferings of our Lord.
  4. Trochlear.

词形变化

more pathetic comparative most pathetic superlative pathetick alternative,archaic patheticke alternative,obsolete pathetique alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
hyperpathetic nonpathetic pathetically pathetic fallacy patheticism pathetic nerve patheticness pathetics telepathetic un-pathetic
相关词
pathos

词源

From Middle French pathétique, from Latin patheticus, from Ancient Greek παθητικός (pathētikós, “subject to feeling, capable of feeling, impassioned”), from παθητός (pathētós, “one who has suffered, subject to suffering”), from πάσχω (páskhō, “to suffer”). By surface analysis, path- + -etic.
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