pathetic

pathetic is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Expressing or showing anger; passionate. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
2. adjective. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
3. adjective. inspiring scornful pity- Dashiell Hammett

   "how silly an ardent and unsuccessful wooer can be especially if he is getting on in years"

   Synonyms: ridiculous, silly

4. adjective. inspiring mixed contempt and pity

   "their efforts were pathetic"

   "pitiable lack of character"

   Synonyms: pitiable, pitiful

5. adjective. deserving or inciting pity- Galsworthy

   "a hapless victim"

   "miserable victims of war"

   Synonyms: hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched

Synonyms

ridiculous, silly, pitiable, pitiful, hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, poor, wretched

Common word forms

pathetical, patheticly, patheticness

Words from these letters

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