Difference between Pitiful and Pathetic

PITIFUL vs PATHETIC: NOUN

Very small (of an amount or number).
So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
Feeling pity; merciful.
To be pitied for littleness or meanness; miserable; paltry; contemptible; despicable.
Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion.
Filled with pity or compassion.
Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. : pathetic.
Inspiring or deserving pity.
Deserving or inciting pity
Bad; unfortunate
Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic.
Inspiring mixed contempt and pity

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.
A style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
Inspiring scornful pity

Unfortunate
Full of pity; tender; compassionate; having a feeling of sorrow and sympathy for the distressed.
Exciting or fitted to excite pity or compassion; miserable; deplorable; sad: as, a pitiful condition; a pitiful look.
To be pitied for its littleness or meanness; paltry; insignificant; contemptible; despicable.
Bad

Trochlear: in reference to the superior oblique muscle.
In anatomy, trochlear: in designation of or reference to the fourth crania1 nerve.
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.
Expressing or showing passion; passionate.

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

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

Misfortunate, Distressing, Sorry, Bad, Sad, Hapless, Deplorable, Contemptible, Piteous, Poor, Lamentable, Miserable, Pitiable, Wretched, Pathetic

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

Canaanite provincials as pitiful and of little consequence.
Good ground, be pitiful and hurt me not!
He will be seen naked in pitiful disorder.
We are not excessively pitiful of his case.
Poor pitiful me, how I had been wronged.
But the birth itself is still more pitiful.
All he does is cry poor pitiful me.
Really pitiful players may bring a croquet mallet.
Jesus is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
The women first break their men into a pitiful betas, unless they already were pitiful.

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Most women these days are very pathetic altogether.
Seems pretty pathetic not to have this feature.
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.