transcription, транскрипция: [ pəθetɪk ]
1.
If you describe a person or animal as pathetic , you mean that they are sad and weak or helpless, and they make you feel very sorry for them.
The small group of onlookers presented a pathetic sight...
She now looked small, shrunken and pathetic.
ADJ
• pa‧theti‧cal‧ly
She was pathetically thin.
ADV
2.
If you describe someone or something as pathetic , you mean that they make you feel impatient or angry, often because they are weak or not very good.
What pathetic excuses...
It’s a pound for a small glass of wine, which is pathetic.
ADJ [ disapproval ]
• pa‧theti‧cal‧ly
Five women in a group of 18 people is a pathetically small number.
ADV : ADV adj