a made-up name for an organization. Pathetic means pitifully unsuccessful; ineffect*e.a made-up name for an organization.a made-up name for an organization. I was reading in a-in a magazine the other day-somebody writing from the "Pathetic Foundation" or something-a guy I-once in a while I used to try to get him to get me to process him, because we used to have trouble with this boy.