pathetic
/pəˈθetɪk/ adjectiveDefinition
BAD informal › showing no skill, effort, or bravery: He made a rather pathetic attempt to apologize. You're too frightened to speak to her? Come on, that's pathetic! It was a pathetic performance.
SAD › sad and weak: Four times the pathetic little creature fell to the ground.
pathetically adverb › a pathetically small amount of money(Definition of pathetic adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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