bathetic

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Definition von bathetic im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Characterized by or pertaining to bathos

The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.

effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry"

{s} absurd, melodramatic

Having the character of bathos

bathetical

Silbentrennung

ba·thet·ic