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Definition of Bathetic
1. Adjective. Effusively or insincerely emotional. "Slushy poetry"
Similar to: Emotional
Derivative terms: Drippiness, Mawkishness, Mawkishness, Mushiness, Sentiment, Sentimentality
Definition of Bathetic
1. a. Having the character of bathos.
Definition of Bathetic
1. Adjective. Characterized by or pertaining to ''bathos''. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bathetic
1. trite [adj] - See also: trite
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathetic
Literary usage of Bathetic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Through the Long Day: Or, Memorials of a Literary Life During Half a Century by Charles Mackay (1887)
"bathetic ! "interposed Mr. Campbell, "bathetic is a good word ... I think Coleridge
uses bathetic," said Mr. ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"bathetic, pertaining to bathos. A fatal insensibility to the ludicrous and the
bathetic.—Academy, July 3, 1875, p. 5. ..."
3. The Snare of Strength by Randolph Bedford (1905)
"Annie Johns, for instance, had to sing twice over a melancholy and bathetic song,
which these humorless people enjoyed as the humorous enjoy humour: "There ..."
4. Psychology: General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd, ( (1907)
"In the first case, there is a plan of arrangement which can easily be apprehended
and bathetic appreciation a form of feeling. ..."
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