pathetic

adjective4

1. •
   Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion; exciting pathos.

   • The child’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
2. •
   (disapproving) (of a person or thing) so weak, bad or useless that others feel no respect for them

   • You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic.
   • You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic.
3. •
   Trochlear.
4. •
   (no longer used) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

   • On a certain Good Friday, in what year we are not told, an especially moving and pathetic sermon was preached in the Cathedral by Father John Texeda, upon the sufferings of our Lord. — 1894