Bathos

Word BATHOS
Character 6
Hyphenation ba thos
Pronunciations /ˈbeɪθɒs/

Definitions and meanings of "Bathos"

What do we mean by bathos?

An abrupt, presumably unintended juxtaposition of the exalted and the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. noun

An anticlimax. noun

Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos. noun

Banality; triteness. noun

Depth; lowest part or stage; bottom. noun

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace or ridiculous in writing or speech; a sinking; anticlimax. noun

Synonyms Fustian, Turgidness, etc. See bombast. noun

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. noun

Depth, bottom. noun

An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax. noun

Triteness; triviality; banality. noun

Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos. noun

Triteness or triviality of style noun

A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one noun

Insincere pathos noun

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

Depth.

(the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to

(the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Skeezily uncomfortable. Urban Dictionary

A worthless piece of monkey shit. he is the shortest shitbag ever concieved. he has no friends, and his hair looks like an 80s afro. he is a flaming deush bag, and loves his brothers cock. Urban Dictionary

A dramatic moment in a work of fiction that's undercut on purpose, usually for a joke. When used well, it's really funny and can be kind of a relief. When used poorly, it can come across as insecure or lazy writing. Think of a stereotypical line from a Marvel movie, like "Well THAT just happened!" or "He's right behind me, isn't he" Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Bathos

The word "bathos" in example sentences

Longinus's warning against bathos is a dangerous one for those who would take it too much to heart. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

"'Frisco Kid's Story" (Aegis, 15 February 1895) is mawkish and sentimental, a lesson in bathos and in how not to handle dialect (that is, by employing an abundance of it). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Despite the rad profile, nest was as knee-deep in bathos and bourgeois denial as any other shelter mag. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I think the correct term is "bathos" - an abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Blurb bathos is a killer, because it’s actually really fun and easy to be blurb bathetic in the same way it’s fun and easy to write a bathetic poem. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In less skillful hands, the plot — and there is a good, strong plot — might have foundered in bathos, but Dean adroitly sticks to the high road; although she afflicts her characters with terminal cancer, Alzheimer’s, alcoholism, and adultery, these trials, rather than defining the people who suffer them, serve to reveal their fiber. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Like Browning, he wrote too much to write well at all times, and if both poets were capable of the sublimest flights, they likewise descended to unimagined depths; but the fault of Wordsworth was perhaps the greater, because his bathos was the result of a deliberate and persistent attempt to enrich English poetry with prosaically versified incidents drawn at length from homely rural life. ❋ John Louis Haney (N/A)

It insists that men should not mistake, as they are prone to mistake, their natural taste for the bathos for a relish for the sublime; and if statesmen, either [lvi] with their tongue in their cheek or through a generous impulsiveness, tell them their natural taste for the bathos is a relish for the sublime, there is the more need for culture to tell them the contrary. ❋ Matthew Arnold (1855)

Drudge may have drawn a record number of visitors in October, but this kind of bathos may explain why the site's pull is not what it used to be. ❋ Bateman, Christopher (2008)

For now, therefore, the industry's making do with this – a carpeting of pop-rock bathos with a minimal techno underlay. ❋ Unknown (2012)

A trace of bathos was detected when Villas-Boas went on to say he believed Chelsea could "come through" the next game, at Wolves, and have the "right frame of mind" for the FA Cup tie with Portsmouth at home. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Gatto's Archie Lee was loutish, coarse, violent, and, God bless him, unusually patient, which translated to almost unbearable bathos. ❋ James Scarborough (2012)

Otherwise, I know I shall find myself hovering near the perimeter wire of Nike World, overcome by the bathos of it all, and sighing: "I sort of expected it to look eviller." ❋ Unknown (2011)

It's important to emphasize that this isn't some simpering "oh gosh, life sure was swell then" nostaliga piece -- his wisftulness is well tempered with the knowledge of how such feelings can easily lead to a pathetic bathos, sentimentalism or worse. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It was so bathos when [your dad] came out of his room in [a towel] and asked you to rub [lotion] on his back. ❋ J. Elliott (2009)

look at that [batho], hes [eating] a big [polish sausage]! ❋ Nick The Dick4536787678 (2010)

"I [hated] that new [movie], it was so bathos-poisoned it [felt] completely insincere" ❋ Octopusjardin (2023)

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