All 5 Uses of
pathetic
in
David Copperfield
- He got Mr. Peggotty to sing, or rather to roar, 'When the stormy winds do blow, do blow, do blow'; and he sang a sailor's song himself, so pathetically and beautifully, that I could have almost fancied that the real wind creeping sorrowfully round the house, and murmuring low through our unbroken silence, was there to listen.†
Chpt 19-21
- After Sarah was restored, we still had to break it to the other eight; and it produced various effects upon them of a most pathetic nature.†
Chpt 40-42
- 'No, no, no!' returned the Doctor, in a tone of most pathetic grief.†
Chpt 40-42 *
- She was so pathetic in her sobbing and bewailing, that I felt as if I had said I don't know what to hurt her.†
Chpt 43-45
- His bowed head, and her angel-face and filial duty, derived a more pathetic meaning from it than they had had before.†
Chpt 58-60
Definition:
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(pathetic as in: Her pathetic look saddened us.) pitiful (arousing pity)