bathetic
Adjective Satellite
- effusively or insincerely emotional
- "a bathetic novel"
Adj
- Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
Adjective
- Exhibiting an unintentional descent from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Examples
- His speech about his Scrabble win was bathetic, ending with a complaint about the tile distribution.
Origin / Etymology
From bathos + -etic, based on the form of pathos and pathetic.
Synonyms
drippy, hokey, kitschy, maudlin, mawkish, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, slushy, soppy, soupy
Scrabble Score: 15
bathetic: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbathetic: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bathetic: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary