Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: pateties
- Amharic: ቀጥል
- Arabic: مثير للشفقة
- Azerbaijani: heyf
- Bashkir: йәл
- Belarusian: шкада
- Bulgarian: жалко
- Bengali: বেচারা
- Bosnian: patetično
- Catalan: patètic
- Cebuano: makaluluoy
- Czech: ubohý
- Welsh: pathetic
- Danish: patetisk
- German: erbärmlich
- Greek: αξιολύπητος
- Esperanto: mizera
- Spanish: patético
- Estonian: haletsusväärne
- Basque: patetikoa
- Persian: احساساتی
- Finnish: säälittävää
- French: pathétique
- Irish: pathetic
- Scottish Gaelic: pathetic
- Galician: patético
- Gujarati: વલણવાળું
- Hebrew: פתטי
- Hindi: दयनीय
- Croatian: jadno
- Haitian: minables
- Hungarian: szánalmas
- Armenian: ցավում
- Indonesian: menyedihkan
- Icelandic: aumkunarvert
- Italian: patetico
- Japanese: 悲
- Javanese: bagong
- Georgian: მიზერული
- Kazakh: өкінішті,
- Khmer: ទេ
- Kannada: ಕರುಣಾಜನಕ
- Korean: 심
- Kyrgyz: жалко
- Latin: misellus
- Luxembourgish: erbäermlech
- Lao: ເທດ
- Lithuanian: apgailėtina
- Latvian: nožēlojami
- Malagasy: mampalahelo
- Mari: жал
- Maori: pathetic
- Macedonian: патетичен
- Malayalam: pathetic
- Mongolian: тэнэг
- Marathi: कीव
- Hill Mari: жӓлӹн
- Malay: menyedihkan
- Maltese: parti
- Burmese: တိ
- Nepali: pathetic
- Dutch: zielig
- Norwegian: patetisk
- Punjabi: ਤਰਸਯੋਗ
- Papiamento: patio
- Polish: żałosne
- Portuguese: patético
- Romanian: patetic
- Russian: жалко
- Sinhalese: කණගාටුවට කරුණ
- Slovak: úbohé
- Slovenian: patetično
- Albanian: prekës
- Serbian: жао
- Sundanese: pathetic
- Swedish: patetiskt
- Swahili: pathetic
- Tamil: பரிதாபகரமான
- Telugu: ఉత్సుకత
- Tajik: жалко
- Thai: น่าสมเพช
- Tagalog: kalunus-lunos
- Turkish: acınası
- Tatar: кызганыч
- Udmurt: жаль
- Ukrainian: жалко
- Urdu: انتہائی افسوس ناک
- Uzbek: ta'sirli
- Vietnamese: thảm hại
- Xhosa: pathetic
- Yiddish: פּאַטעטיק
- Chinese: 可怜
Synonyms, close and similar words for pathetic
- touching
- heartfelt
- heartwarming
- poignant
- forlorn
- paltry
- pitiful
- sorry
- piteous
- abject
- measly
- miserable
- poor
- wretched
- ratty
- shabby
- squalid
- pity
- pitiable
- lamentable
- despicable
- contemptible
- sad
- rueful
- deplorable
- heartbreaking
- bloodcurdling
- harrowing
- heartrending
- dismal
- melancholy
- dreary
- bombastic
- ridiculous
- risible
- ludicrous
- comical
- absurd
- silly