bathetic

[ buh-thet-ik ]
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adjective
  1. displaying or characterized by bathos: the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.

Origin of bathetic

1
1825–35; bath(os) + -etic, on the model of pathetic

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  • ba·thet·i·cal·ly, adverb

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British Dictionary definitions for bathetic

bathetic

/ (bəˈθɛtɪk) /


adjective
  1. containing or displaying bathos

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