pathetique

Adjective

pathetic (comparative more pathetic, superlative most pathetic)

1. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.
   • The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.

   Synonyms:

   pathetisad, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, compassionate, piteous, pitisome, sad, poor, rueful

2. Arousing scorn or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
   • You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.

   Synonyms:

   disgraceful, shameful, dishonorable, abject, filthy, base, beggarly, blameworthy, carrion, cheap

3. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
   • 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.1894, A. M. Clarke, The Life of Saint Francis Borgia, page 95

   Synonyms:

   mad, seething, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling

4. Trochlear.