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bathetic

[ buh-thet-ik ]

adjective

  1. displaying or characterized by bathos:

    the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.



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  • ba·theti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bathetic1

1825–35; bath(os) + -etic, on the model of pathetic

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