01 a. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
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1.
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.[Obs.]
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2.
Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story.“No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.” — E. Porter.
Phrases & compounds
Pathetic muscle —
the superior oblique muscle of the eye.
Pathetic nerve —
the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye.
The pathetic —
a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.