Main Entry: pa·thet·ic
Pronunciation: \pə-ˈthe-tik\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French pathetique, from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathētikos capable of feeling, pathetic, from paschein (aor. pathein) to experience, suffer — more at pathos
Date: 1598
1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity
2 : marked by sorrow or melancholy : sad
3 : pitifully inferior or inadequate <the restaurant’s pathetic service>
4 : absurd, laughable <a pathetic costume>
synonyms see moving
— pa·thet·i·cal -ti-kəl\ adjective
— pa·thet·i·cal·ly -ti-k(ə-)lē\ adverb
Seriously, just leave me alone. Your pathetic attemps to call me and say you’re somebody else trying to upset me, and trying to get to me at all just make you look like an idiot. When will you learn that I just don’t care?
