1. pathetic - Adjective
2. pathetic - Adjective Satellite
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAll violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy. John Ruskin
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. H. L. Mencken
I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. John D. Rockefeller
The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision. Helen Keller
I don't distinguish between magic and art. When I got into magic, I realised I had been doing it all along, ever since I wrote my first pathetic story or poem when I was twelve or whatever. This has all been my magic, my way of dealing with it. Alan Moore
Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning. Alfred North Whitehead