Dictionary entry

Pathetic

Pronunciation: /pəˈθɛtɪk/

Pronunciation

/pəˈθɛtɪk/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) သနားစဖွယ်။ ရင်နင့်ဖွယ်။ သနားစရာကောင်းလောက်အောင်အသုံးမကျသော။ ပျော့ညံ့သော။ နုံချာသော။

Definition

pathetic /pǝ'θetÇk/ adj ၁။ သနားစဖြယ္။ ရင္နင့္ဖြယ္။ pathetic cries for help ❍ the pathetic sight of starving children. ၂။ ( infml ) သနားစရာ ေကာင္းေလာက္ေအာင္ အသံုးမက်ေသာ။ ေပ်ာ့ညံ့ေသာ။ ႏံုခ်ာေသာ။ a pathetic attempt/performance/excuse ❍ You're pathetic—you can't even boil an egg! ❏ pathetically /-kli/ adv သနားစဖြယ္။ a pathetically thin child ❍ The dog was whimpering pathetically.

Examples

  1. That’s the most pathetic excuse I’ve ever heard.
  2. He made a pathetic attempt to explain his failure.
  3. The child looked so small and pathetic.
  4. A pathetic story