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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bathetic

Bathetic \Ba*thet"ic\, a. Having the character of bathos. [R.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bathetic

1834, from bathos on the model of pathetic, which, however, does not come directly from pathos (see pathetic), so the formation is either erroneous or humorous. Bathotic (1863, perhaps on model of chaotic) is not much better.

Wiktionary
bathetic

a. Characterized by or pertaining to ''bathos''.

WordNet
bathetic

adj. effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressons of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy]

Usage examples of "bathetic".

Once he has stepped on the inevitable machinery of fate that will carry him to his bathetic denouement, nothing he can say or do will alter his lot.

I brought my lute so that I could accompany myself while I tell you my bathetic story.

Its head bobbed frantically from side to side, but despite its terror, it could only emit a bathetic cooing.

She represses all bathetic this-will-be-the-last-thing-I-smell thought-patterns.

He paused in this bathetic reflection, for thinking of Uri had reminded him of something.

But at every turn Laidlaw updates the Lovecraftian tone, juxtaposing typically Lovecraftian passages with images that are almost bathetic in their mingling of everyday items and cosmic horror: a mandala descends "like a vast black sentient ceiling fan," while in its target's mind "something deeply rooted in all the errors and apprehensions of matter, sent a momentary spasm through her muscles, a surge of animal panic.