lineage; blood, strain, stock, extraction.
3. origin, origination, creation, production; authorship, composition, inditement; formation, fabrication, fashioning, forming, shaping, molding.
path, n. 1. footpath, Brit, footway, towpath, bike path, bikeway; pathway, trail, track; walk, walkway, sidewalk; median, centerstrip, mall, island; passage, passageway, alley, by-path, byway, crosscut, short cut; by-road, by-street, side road or street; lane, road, roadway, pavement; street, avenue, strip, boulevard; route, highway, turnpike; entrance, runway, ramp, access, approach, adit, inlet, ingress.
2. route, course, run, track; circuit, circle, sphere; orbit, trajectory, revolution, turn, loop; cycle, compass, lap, round, beat, ambit.
3. course, procedure, process, method, manner, mode, form, fashion, system; approach, way, means, channel, avenue; plan, project, scheme, strategy, stratagem, design, arrangement; idea, conception, device, contrivance.
4. cross one's path encounter, come upon or on, run into, come across, meet unexpectedly.
pathetic, adj. 1. pitiable, pitiful, piteous, to be pitied, wretched; sad, doleful, dolorous, dolorific, sorrowful, mournful, grievous, plaintive; lamentable, regrettable, deplorable, rueful, woeful, woebegone.
2. touching, moving, affecting, affective, affec-tional, melting, heartrending, heart-moving, heartbreaking; tender, poignant, emotional, emotive.
3. paltry, puny, petty, piddling, poky, picayune, beggarly, Inf. measly, SI.
crummy, SI.
lousy, SI.
rotten; slight, skimpy, scrimpy, meager; (all to an extreme degree) insufficient, inadequate, unsatisfactory, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying, ungratifying.
pathfinder, n. trailblazer, trailbreaker, explorer; paver of the way; scout, guide, point; pioneer, frontiersman; forerunner, precursor, front or lead runner.
pathless, adj. trackless, wayless, untracked, unpathed, unexplored, uncharted, unpenetrated, untrodden, unopened; closed, impassable, impenetrable, inaccessible, impervious, imperviable, impermeable; dense, overgrown, jungled, jungly; waste, wild.
pathological, adj. morbid, diseased, bad, infected, contaminated; mortified, gangrened, gangrenous, sphacelated; poisoned, septic.
pathology, n. 1. pathobiology; diagnostics, pathog-nomy, symptomatology, Pathol, etiology; nosology, nosography, nosogeography.
2. pathogenesis, nosogenesis.
pathos, n. pity, commiseration, condolence; sympathy, sympathetic response, fellow feeling, feeling, responsiveness; care, concern.
patience, n. 1. composure, containment, aplomb, sang-froid, poise, self-possession; self-control, selfcommand, equanimity, equilibrium, dispassion, Inf. cool; quiescence, quiet, repose, stillness, calmness, peacefulness, peace; tranquillity, serenity, imperturbability, inexcitability, unflappability, even-temperedness, even temper.
2. forbearance, tolerance, toleration, endurance, sufferance, restraint; leniency, brooking, bearing with [s.o.]; long-suffering, stoicism, resignation; docility, tractability, pliancy, amenability; agreeableness, acquiescence, willingness to go along.
3. stamina, indefatigability, perseverance, singleness of purpose; persistence, staying power, tenacity, Inf. stick-to-it-iveness; assiduity, assiduousness, diligence, constancy.
patient, n. 1. sick or ill person, infirm person, hospital case, case; asylum inmate, convalescent, outpatient, shut-in, valetudinarian; sufferer, victim, disease victim, accident victim, surgical case.