Disagreeable vs Pathetic - What's the difference?
disagreeable | pathetic | Related terms |
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant.
Something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
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(obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Disagreeable is a related term of pathetic.
As adjectives the difference between disagreeable and pathetic
is that disagreeable is not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable while pathetic is arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.As a noun disagreeable
is something displeasing; anything that is disagreeable.disagreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- (rfdate) Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and teach nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. --Udall.
- (rfdate) That which is disagreeable''' to one is many times agreeable to another, or '''disagreeable in a less degree. --Wollaston.
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "disagreeable" is often applied: odor, smell, taste, sensation, thing, person, man, woman, duty, work, feeling, manner, experience, effect, feature, business, surprise, job.Antonyms
* agreeableNoun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
pathetic
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Alternative forms
* pathetick (archaic) * patheticke (obsolete) * pathetique (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The old man’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.
- You can't even run two miles? That’s pathetic .
- You're almost 26 years old and you still can't hold a real job? That's pathetic .