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bathetic. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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Definition of bathetic in the Online Dictionary. Meaning of bathetic. Pronunciation of bathetic. Translations of bathetic. bathetic synonyms, bathetic antonyms. Information about bathetic in the free online English dictionary and encyclopedia. Adj. 1. bathetic - effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel";
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bathetic (comparative more bathetic, superlative most bathetic) The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.
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Definitions of bathetic at Dictionary.com. displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.
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Definition of bathetic from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. Search "bathetic" in:
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bathos, pathos, bathetic, pathetic. The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993 second syllable pronounced -thahs or -thos), which is an emotion evoking pity and compassion. The adjectives bathetic and pathetic rhyme.
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Let none of my prose be bathetic–displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas. * I went through the first 50 pages of my manuscript as an experiment and snipped out words that might’ve made my strong heroine seem self-pitying or that veered into bathetic territory.
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The terms I really like, however, are bathetic and bathysmal. The former is also attested as bathotic and means "'sinking' rhetorically" as in "He wrote a bathetic and impotent epic." A bathetic performance, for example. It would relive all the pressure from pathetic, one of American's most overused words.But, in my mind,
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Wordie: bathetic: (adj): effusively or insincerely emotional. Wordie is a social network for people who love words. List words, add comments and citations, and discuss.
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