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Definition of Bathos
1. Noun. Triteness or triviality of style.
2. Noun. Insincere pathos.
3. Noun. A change from a serious subject to a disappointing one.
Group relationships: Story
Generic synonyms: Close, Closing, Conclusion, End, Ending
Derivative terms: Anticlimactic
Definition of Bathos
1. n. A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Definition of Bathos
1. Noun. Depth, bottom. ¹
2. Noun. An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax. ¹
3. Noun. Triteness; triviality; banality. ¹
4. Noun. Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bathos
1. triteness [n -ES] - See also: triteness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathos
Literary usage of Bathos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. by Alexander Pope, Joseph Warton (1797)
"THAT THERE IS AN ART OF THE bathos, OR PROFUND. now come to prove, that there is
an Art of Sinking in ... I grant that to excel in the bathos a Genius is ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"For the sake of praise, Fame, the clear spirit that doth to heaven upraise, He
wooed the bathos down great water-falls; The dizzy precipice, which the eye ..."
3. The Works ...: With the Author's Life and Character, Notes [etc.] In Eight by Jonathan Swift (1761)
"That the bathos, or profound, is the natural tape ... of the bathos is implanted
l>y nature ... bathos ..."
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