Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bathetic

/bəˈθɛtɪk/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.15 in modern English

Syllables: ba-thet-ic
IPA: /bəˈθɛtɪk/

15

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.

Example Sentences

"The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride."
"To ask what it is that Don Quixote himself believes is to enter the visionary centre of his story. This curious blend of the sublime and the bathetic does not come again until Kafka, another pupil of Cervantes, would compose stories like "The Hunter Gracchus" and "A Country Doctor"."
"It is possible that Shillibeer's bathetic end is the reason buses did not become universally known as 'Shillibeers'. Some operators had called their buses Shillibeers."

Etymology

From bathos + -etic, based on the form of pathos and pathetic.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bathos

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /bəˈθɛtɪk/

Inflected Forms

more bathetic (comparative) most bathetic (superlative)

Derived Forms

bathetically

Synonyms

anticlimactic banal hammy kitschy bathetic bromidic cheesy stock clichéd commonplace corny dog-eared

Questions

How do you pronounce bathetic?: The recorded pronunciation is /bəˈθɛtɪk/.
What does bathetic mean?: Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
Where does bathetic come from?: From bathos + -etic, based on the form of pathos and pathetic.

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