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Adjective: pathetic  pu'thetik
  1. Deserving or inciting pity
    "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"
    - hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
     
  2. Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
    "their efforts were pathetic"
    - pitiable, pitiful
     
  3. Inspiring scornful pity
    - ridiculous, silly

See also: contemptible, pathetically, pathos, undignified, unfortunate

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