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单词 pathetic
释义 pa·thet·ic
\pəˈthed.]ik, -et], ]ēk\ adjective
also pa·thet·i·cal \]ə̇kəl, ]ēk-\
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French pathetique, from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathētikos capable of feeling, sensitive, pathetic, from pathētos subject to suffering, liable to external influence (from path-, stem of paschein to experience, suffer) + -ikos -ic, -ical — more at pathos
1. obsolete
 a. : exciting or stirring emotion or passion
 b. : marked by strong emotion : passionate
2.
 a. : evoking tenderness, pity, sympathy, or sorrow : affecting, pitiable
  < looked old and pathetic — Ruth Park >
  < a pathetic confusion between knowledge and guesswork — M.R.Cohen >
  < pathetic and misdirected efforts to be one's true self — Sara H. Hay >
 b. : marked by sorrow, suffering, or melancholy : sad
  < mingling playful with pathetic thoughts — William Wordsworth >
  < you may be gentle and pathetic, or savage and cynical with perfect propriety — W.M.Thackeray >
  < the eloquent phrases I had arranged, pathetic or indignant, seemed out of place — W.S.Maugham >
3. : of or relating to the superior oblique muscle or the trochlear nerve
Synonyms: see moving
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