pathetic

Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion.

Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.

Expressing or showing passion; passionate.

Full of pathos; affecting or moving the feelings; exciting pity, sorrow, grief, or other tender emotion; affecting: as, a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

In anatomy, trochlear: in designation of or reference to the fourth crania1 nerve.

A trochlear or pathetic nerve; a patheticus.

Trochlear: in reference to the superior oblique muscle.

Same as patheticus, 2.

Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos.