arousing pity, especially through vulnerability or sadness 引起怜悯的,可怜的;可悲的 she looked so pathetic that I bent down to comfort her. 她看上去那么可怜,于是我弯下身去安慰她。 ■(informal)miserably inadequate (非正式)很差劲的,不足的,可怜巴巴的 his ball control was pathetic. 他的控球技术很差劲。
(archaic)relating to the emotions (古)感情的,情绪的,情感的
派生 pathetically adverb 语源
late 16th cent. (in the sense 'affecting the emotions'): via late Latin from Greek pathētikos 'sensitive', based on pathos 'suffering'