英语词汇“bathetic”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

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 FAMILY

bathetic: bathetically

USAGE EXAMPLES

He 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

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 FAMILY bathetic: bathetically USAGE EXAMPLES He 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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