bathos
Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathosOverdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
Meaning
8 senses(uncountable, usually)Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
insincere pathos
(uncountable, usually)A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
(uncountable, usually)An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
(uncountable, usually)A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
(uncountable, usually)Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic.
(uncountable, usually)A hyperbole: excessiveness.
(uncountable, usually)The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
Bathos
(uncommon, uncountable, usually)A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following AlexandBorrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.
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Forms
plural: bathoses| Singular | bathos |
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uncountable
Synonyms
12 synonyms- a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one:anticlimax
- insincere pathos:mawkishness
Antonyms
3 antonymsWord family
2 related wordsLessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable