Difference between Pathetic and Piteous

PATHETIC vs PITEOUS: NOUN

Inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Deserving or inciting pity
Arousing or deserving of sympathetic sadness and compassion.
Arousing or deserving of scornful pity.
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos.
The superior oblique muscle of the eye.
The fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye.
Inspiring scornful pity
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
A style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.

Expressing or showing passion; passionate.
Full of pathos; affecting or moving the feelings; exciting pity, sorrow, grief, or other tender emotion; affecting: as, a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.
In anatomy, trochlear: in designation of or reference to the fourth crania1 nerve.
Trochlear: in reference to the superior oblique muscle.

Pitiful; paltry; poor: as, piteous amends. Milton.
Such as to excite pity or move to compassion; affecting; lamentable; sorrowful; mournful; sad: as, a piteous look; a piteous case.
Full of pity or compassion; compassionate; affected by pity.

Disgraceful, Laughable, Misfortunate, Unfortunate, Poor, Hapless, Undignified, Piteous, Silly, Miserable, Contemptible, Wretched, Ridiculous, Pitiable, Pitiful

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

Disgraceful, Laughable, Misfortunate, Unfortunate, Poor, Hapless, Undignified, Piteous, Silly, Miserable, Contemptible, Wretched, Ridiculous, Pitiable, Pitiful

Forlorn, Ghastly, Reproachful, Plaintive, Sorrowful, Doleful, Unfortunate, Poor, Misfortunate, Miserable, Hapless, Wretched, Pathetic, Pitiful, Pitiable

STARS, OUTWARDLY PATHETIC, MOST WANTING TO LIE DOWN?
Most women these days are very pathetic altogether.
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Father of American killed: Spain train crash "pathetic".
Wife goes Black and feminizes her pathetic hubby.
Freedom of Speech used in a sad and pathetic way is no different than Freedom itself used in a sad and pathetic way.
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What a pathetic sad weak generation when people even consider messing with peoples ability to speak freely just because spoiled pathetic kids.
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This article is pathetic just like the pathetic idiots who believe the pathetic loser who wrote it.

Indians than she can well spare; and this because her tender heart cannot withstand the piteous appeals so constantly made.
NEMESIS, piteous way, why she was smitten down, and he, a grey, sapless trunk, left standing.
The townships remained poorly serviced with inadequate housing, and local government was in a piteous state.
Pain erupted in cramped muscles all along my body, making piteous noises of distress.
Thus having said, he heavily departed With piteous crie, that auie would have smarted.
Dying Wife Made Piteous Plea for Life When She Saw Her Baby.
French Christians in the fifth century to utter their piteous supplications.
Her voice was tense with piteous anguish as she pleaded.
Almah threw a piteous glance at me and said nothing.
It was most piteous, that last expiring spout.