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41pathetic — adj 1. pitiable, pitiful, piteous, to be pitied, wretched; sad, doleful, dolorous, dolorific, sorrowful, mournful, grievous, plaintive; lamentable, regrettable, deplorable, rueful, woeful, woebegone. 2. touching, moving, affecting, affective,… …
42pathetic — pa·thet·ic …
43pathetic — Kū i ke aloha, menemene, walohia …
44The pathetic — Pathetic Pa*thet ic, a. [L. patheticus, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, to suffer: cf. F. path[ e]tique. See {Pathos}.] 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of… …
45pathetic fallacy — noun Date: 1856 the ascription of human traits or feelings to inanimate nature (as in cruel sea) …
46pathetic fallacy — noun An error in logical argumentation which consists in treating inanimate objects or concepts as if they were human beings, for instance having thoughts or feelings …
47pathetic fallacy — Projecting or displacing human emotions and feelings onto things that do not have them, although they may prompt emotions in us. We are supposed to commit the fallacy by talking of angry weather and sad trees. But the descriptions may be apt with …
48pathetic fallacy — pa.thetic fallacy n [U] technical the idea of describing the sea, rocks, weather etc in literature as if they were human …
49Pathetic Peter — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky whose compositions are soaked in sorrow …
50pathetic fallacy — noun the attribution of human feelings and responses to inanimate things or animals …