| 单词 | pathetic |
| 释义 | pathetic (once / 440 pages) adj Something pathetic inspires pity and contempt. If your backhand is pathetic, you probably shouldn't try out for the tennis team. These days, when you see the word pathetic, it's pretty clear that it's no compliment. This is an insulting word for things that are so bad they bum you out. A sports team losing ten games in a row is pathetic. Someone who constantly lies, even though the lies are obvious, is pathetic. Trying to dunk a basketball and missing by three feet is pathetic. When something is astoundingly lame or awful, people love to say, "Wow. How pathetic." WORD FAMILYpathetic: pathetically+/pathos: pathetic USAGE EXAMPLESThe Explainers are very sure of this, nodding in unison while smiling in bemusement at the pathetic delusions of the Trump people. Washington Post(Dec 29, 2016) Ms. Fisher characterizes her memoir as just one more “pathetic bid” for the attention she did not receive as a young child. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) But Sir Malcolm argued that the level of Gaelic broadcasting at the time was "pathetic". BBC(Dec 29, 2016) 1adj deserving or inciting pity "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy Syn hapless, miserable, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune 2adj inspiring mixed contempt and pity their efforts were pathetic Syn pitiable, pitiful contemptible deserving of contempt or scorn 3adj inspiring scornful pity Syn ridiculous, silly undignified lacking dignity |
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