bathetic

[ buh-thet-ik ]

adjective

1. displaying or characterized by bathos:

   the bathetic emotionalism of soap operas.

Other Words From

• ba·theti·cal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of bathetic¹

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

Example Sentences

Bad writing that thinks that it is rendering an erotically charged depiction of good sex seems to be far more bathetic.

From The Daily Beast

The man spoke earnestly, but a third person and extraneous hearer could hardly avoid being struck by the bathetic conclusion.

From Project Gutenberg

To esteem a man in inverse ratio to the amount of remarkable blood he has inherited is, to say the least, bathetic.

From Project Gutenberg

"O Stern Old Land" is a rather bathetic candidate for the national hymnship.

From Project Gutenberg

But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the quasi-philosophical bathetic.

From Project Gutenberg