Usually means: Eliciting pity through exaggerated sadness.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. pathetical: Merriam-Webster
  2. pathetical: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pathetical: Wordnik
  4. pathetical: Wiktionary
  5. Pathetical, pathetical: Dictionary.com
  6. Pathetical: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. pathetical: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Pathetical: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. pathetical: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. pathetical: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Pathetical: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -pathetical: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Pathetical: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pathetic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pathetical)

adjective:  (now archaic) Arousing sympathy; pathetic.
adjective:  Arising from strong emotion; passionate.

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