Definition of pathetic

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Pathetic (a.) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

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Kind-hearted :: Kind-hearted (a.) Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord..
Melodrama :: Melodrama (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's Fidelio..
Impassive :: Impassive (a.) Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved.
Idiopathical :: Idiopathical (a.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic..
Stoic :: Stoic (n.) Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain..
Indifferent :: Indifferent (a.) Feeling no interest, anxiety, or care, respecting anything; unconcerned; inattentive; apathetic; heedless; as, to be indifferent to the welfare of one's family..
Moving :: Moving (a.) Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal..
Antipathous :: Antipathous (a.) Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic.
Apathetic :: Apathetic (a.) Alt. of Apathetica.
Deuteropathy :: Deuteropathy (n.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach..
Ineloquent :: Ineloquent (a.) Not eloquent; not fluent, graceful, or pathetic; not persuasive; as, ineloquent language..
Hard-hearted :: Hard-hearted (a.) Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
Sympathist :: Sympathetically (adv.) In a sympathetic manner.
Lydian :: Lydian (a.) Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character..
Cruel :: Cruel (a.) Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless..
Fellowlike :: Fellowlike (a.) Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic.
Talisman :: Talisman (n.) A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, of a heavenly sign, constellation, or planet, engraved on a sympathetic stone, or on a metal corresponding to the star, in order to receive its influence..
Apathetical :: Apathetical (a.) Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.
Echo :: Echo (n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
Theopathetic :: Theopathetic (a.) Alt. of Theopathi.
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