batheticadj.

Brit.

/bəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S.

/bəˈθɛdɪk/

Etymology: A modern word, formed irregularly < bathos , on the assumed analogy of pathetic (which is not derived < pathos ); compare also bathotic adj.

Characterized by bathos; ‘sinking’ rhetorically, or in literary style; absol. the bathetic = bathos n. (A favourite word of reviewers.)

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > ludicrous descent to the commonplace

bathetica1834

bathotic1863

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 163 Even Warburton would scarcely have made so deep a plunge into the bathetic.

1866 London Rev. 15 Sept. 289/1 The bathetic of our women novelists.

1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 189 His bathetic and impotent epic.

1884 Inquirer 21 June 390/1 Verbose when they should have been concise, bathetic when they wanted to be pathetic.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bathetic
释义	batheticadj. Brit. /bəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S. /bəˈθɛdɪk/ Etymology: A modern word, formed irregularly < bathos , on the assumed analogy of pathetic (which is not derived < pathos ); compare also bathotic adj. Characterized by bathos; ‘sinking’ rhetorically, or in literary style; absol. the bathetic = bathos n. (A favourite word of reviewers.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > ludicrous descent to the commonplace bathetica1834 bathotic1863 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 163 Even Warburton would scarcely have made so deep a plunge into the bathetic. 1866 London Rev. 15 Sept. 289/1 The bathetic of our women novelists. 1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 189 His bathetic and impotent epic. 1884 Inquirer 21 June 390/1 Verbose when they should have been concise, bathetic when they wanted to be pathetic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1834
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