How to spell pathetic

1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity. 2 : marked by sorrow or melancholy : sad. 3 : pitifully inferior or inadequate the restaurant’s pathetic service.

pathetic adjective (SAD)

causing feelings of sadness, sympathy, or sometimes lack of respect, especially because a person or an animal is suffering: The refugees were a pathetic sight – starving, frightened and cold.

useless or not effective in annoying way.