Heartrending vs Pathetic - What's the difference?

Heartrending is a related term of pathetic.

is that heartrending is that causes great grief, anguish or distress while pathetic is arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.

* heart-rending

(en adjective)

That causes great grief, anguish or distress

That elicits deep sympathy

* pathetick (archaic) * patheticke (obsolete) * pathetique (obsolete)

(en adjective)

Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.

The old man’s pathetic pleas for forgiveness stirred the young man’s heart.

Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.

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 .

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(obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

* (arousing pity) pitiful, wretched, miserable, deplorable, pathetisad * (arousing scorn) disgraceful, shameful, despicable, dishonorable

* patheticism * patheticness

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