pathetic
/pəˈθɛtɪk/
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American sound/pəˈθɛtɪk/
pəˈθɛtɪk
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pə - ˈθɛtɪk -> pathetic
Myanmar meaning
(adj) သနားစဖွယ်။ ရင်နင့်ဖွယ်။ သနားစရာကောင်းလောက်အောင်အသုံးမကျသော။ ပျော့ညံ့သော။ နုံချာသော။
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၁။ သနားစဖွယ်။ ရင်နင့်ဖွယ်။ pathetic cries for help ❍ the pathetic sight of starving children.
၂။ (infml ) သနားစရာ ကောင်းလောက်အောင် အသုံးမကျသော။ ပျော့ညံ့သော။ နုံချာသော။ a pathetic attempt/performance/excuse ❍ You're pathetic—you can't even boil an egg!
❏ pathetically /-kli/ adv သနားစဖွယ်။ a pathetically thin child ❍ The dog was whimpering pathetically.
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wretched, dismal, sad, pitiable, weak, useless, feeble, absurd, affecting, commiserable, contemptible, deplorable, derisory, distressing, doleful, heartbreaking, heartrending, inadequate, lamentable, laughable, ludicrous, meager, melting, miserable, moving, paltry, petty, piteous, pitiful, plaintive, poignant, poor, puny, ridiculous, risible, rueful, sorry, tender, touching, tragic, woeful, worthless
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