Clues for the word "PATHOS"
We've had 48 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 72 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Cryptic crossword on August 19, 2025.
Definition of pathos
- n. - That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
Referring Clues
- Compassion
- Emotion of pity
- Sympathetic pity
- Feeling of pity
- Tear-jerking sentiment
- Feeling evoked in drama
- Feeling of compassion
- Commiseration
- Poignancy
- Purple prose quality
- Pity-evoking quality
- Emotional appeal
- Cause of sympathy
- Passionate appeal
- Compas-sion
- Pitiful quality
- Evocation of compassion
- Poignant quality
- Pity
- Feeling of sympathy
- Sympathy
- Quality that arouses emotion
- Compassion-evoking quality
- Hot spa (anag) - sadness
- Literary style arousing feelings of sorrow and sympathy
- Quality that arouses sympathy
- Quality that arouses pity
- Tragedy of trail map-making body
- Sorrow, of course, very uplifting
- The sad effect when a path gets so untidy
- Quality arousing pity
- The sadness of father Thomas
- Quality evoking pity or sadness
- Feeling love in little ways
- Sadness in love in some ways
- Pitiful affair of the quiet musketeer
- Potash sprinkled around arouses pity
- Pitifulness of boy or girl with short stockings
- Poignancy in tracks about love
- One of the three for all the feeling that arouses pity
- Quality that evokes pity
- Footway so untidy as to suggest pitiableness
- Sadness of a soft-headed musketeer
- Rhetoric class concept
- Pitiable quality
- It's sad when tracks go round an endless line
- The sadness of a way that's so crooked
- Rhetorical device used to tug at your heartstrings
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 19, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 02, 2025
- New York Times - February 17, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - October 22, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 29, 2022
- Evening Standard Cryptic - August 16, 2022
- LA Times - December 29, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - October 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - September 25, 2017
- Guardian Cryptic - July 04, 2017
- Guardian Everyman - July 02, 2017
- Universal - June 05, 2017
- Guardian Quick - December 07, 2016
- Guardian Speedy - November 20, 2016
- Netword - November 02, 2016
- LA Times - October 09, 2016
- Evening Standard Cryptic - September 21, 2016
- Guardian Quick - April 30, 2016
- New York Times - December 26, 2015
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 26, 2015
- New York Times - July 07, 2015
- LA Times - March 08, 2015
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 05, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - December 05, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - November 28, 2014
- Family Time - November 11, 2013
- Family Time - September 09, 2013
- USA Today - June 19, 2013
- Guardian Quick - June 01, 2013
- And in 42 more crossword puzzles...