| 单词 | bathetic |
| 释义 | bathetic (once / 121849 pages) adj Bathetic describes something that's overly sentimental, gushy, and worse yet — insincere. Soap operas are known for their bathetic emotionalism, because the characters cry and wail and scheme over the silliest things. Bathetic (the noun is bathos) comes from the Greek word for "depth” but not as in the ocean floor but as in “anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous.” Being bathetic is usually not done on purpose. A bathetic scene in a movie might have a character fall to her knees and scream, “Nooooooo!” because her son left his socks on the floor again. Don't confuse bathetic with pathetic, which means "pitiful." WORD FAMILYbathetic: bathetically USAGE EXAMPLESHe saw his fellow-citizens as being naturally bathetic—striving for spiritual grandeur while ultimately mired in everyday, material concerns. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) And the whole first movement that followed was taken at a pace so slow it was downright lugubrious, sometimes verging on the bathetic. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) Barnes omits the bathetic moments, confirmed by both friends, when the composer wept and lost control. The New Yorker(May 26, 2016) adj effusively or insincerely emotional a bathetic novel Syn drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy emotional of more than usual emotion |
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