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Synonyms for pathetic
adj sad, affectingAntonyms for pathetic
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
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emotional
adjective. demonstrative about feelings
- affecting
- ardent
- disturbed
- ecstatic
- emotive
- enthusiastic
- excitable
- exciting
- falling apart
- fanatical
- feeling
- fervent
- fervid
- fickle
- fiery
- heartwarming
- heated
- histrionic
- hot-blooded
- hysterical
- impassioned
- impetuous
- impulsive
- irrational
- moving
- nervous
- overwrought
- passionate
- pathetic
- poignant
- responsive
- roused
- sensitive
- sentient
- sentimental
- spontaneous
- stirred
- stirring
- susceptible
- tear-jerking
- temperamental
- tender
- thrilling
- touching
- warm
- zealous
expressive
adjective. telling, revealing
- alive
- allusive
- articulate
- artistic
- brilliant
- colorful
- demonstrative
- dramatic
- eloquent
- emphatic
- energetic
- forcible
- graphic
- indicative
- ingenious
- lively
- masterly
- meaningful
- mobile
- moving
- passionate
- pathetic
- pictorial
- picturesque
- poignant
- pointed
- pregnant
- representative
- responsive
- revelatory
- showy
- significant
- silver-tongued
- spirited
- stimulating
- stirring
- striking
- strong
- suggestive
- sympathetic
- tender
- thoughtful
- touching
- understanding
- vivid
- warm
forlorn
adjective. hopeless, inconsolable
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- depressed
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- helpless
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonely
- lonesome
- lost
- miserable
- oppressed
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
grievous
adjective. severe, painful; serious
- afflicting
- agonizing
- appalling
- atrocious
- calamitous
- damaging
- deplorable
- dire
- dismal
- disquieting
- distressing
- disturbing
- dreadful
- egregious
- flagrant
- glaring
- grave
- harmful
- heart-rending
- heavy
- heinous
- hurtful
- injurious
- intolerable
- lamentable
- monstrous
- mournful
- offensive
- onerous
- oppressive
- outrageous
- pathetic
- pitiful
- sad
- shameful
- sharp
- shocking
- sorrowful
- taxing
- tough
- tragic
- troublesome
- unbearable
- upsetting
- villainous
- weighty
- wounding
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.