-pathetic or -pathic adj combining form

-pathist n combining form

Denoting a therapist for a particular disorder

-pathy n combining form

1. Mental or emotional sensitivity or receptiveness
2. Disease, disorder
3. Therapy for a particular disorder

bathos /bāˈthos/

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the ordinary in writing or speech

bathetic /bə-thetˈik/ adjective (irregularly formed on the analogy of pathos, pathetic)

pathos /pāˈthos/

The quality that arouses pity

pathetic /pə-thetˈik/ adjective

1. Affecting the emotions of pity, grief or sorrow
2. Touching
3. Sadly inadequate
4. Contemptible, derisory (informal)
5. Relating to or affecting the passions or their expressions (obsolete)
6. Applied to the superior oblique muscle, which turns the eyeball downwards, and to the trochlear nerve connecting with it (anatomy). See also -pathetic under -path

1. That which is pathetic
2. The style or manner designed to excite emotion
3. (in pl) attempts at pathetic expression

pathetˈical adjective

pathetˈically adverb

pathic /pathˈik/ adjective

Passive (and see also -pathic under -path)

1. A passive subject
2. A catamite

pathetic fallacy noun

(in literature, etc) the transference of human emotions to inanimate objects