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Definition of pathetic. 1  1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity. 2  2 : marked by sorrow or melancholy : sad. 3  3 : pitifully inferior or inadequate the restaurant's pathetic service.  4 : absurd, laughable a pathetic costume.
Slang sense of inferior, pathetic is from 1899; sad sack is 1920s, popularized by World War II armed forces (specifically by cartoon character invented by Sgt. George Baker, 1942, and published in U.S. Armed Forces magazine Yank), probably a euphemistic shortening of common military slang phrase sad sack of shit.