some words we know...
... and yet...
smitten,
stricken, struck
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming;
** thanks to WordReference.com Dictionary
pathetic
Main Entry: pa·thet·ic
Pronunciation: p&-'the-tik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French pathetique, from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathEtikos capable of feeling, pathetic, from paschein (aorist pathein) to experience, suffer -- more at PATHOS
1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity
** thanks to Merriam-Webster Online as usual, except the losers there didn't have a definition for "smitten" at all, so I had to go elsewhere...
smitten,
stricken, struck
(used in combination) affected by something overwhelming;
** thanks to WordReference.com Dictionary
pathetic
Main Entry: pa·thet·ic
Pronunciation: p&-'the-tik
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French pathetique, from Late Latin patheticus, from Greek pathEtikos capable of feeling, pathetic, from paschein (aorist pathein) to experience, suffer -- more at PATHOS
1 : having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity
** thanks to Merriam-Webster Online as usual, except the losers there didn't have a definition for "smitten" at all, so I had to go elsewhere...
posted by reasonably prudent poet at 9:29 PM
2 Comments:
News Flash for today:
--> dictionaries lie
the pity thing
that's not in my definition of pathetic
from Greek pathEtikos: capable of feeling
the greeks are closer
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