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Bathetic

//bəˈθɛtɪk// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.

    "The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride."

Adjective
  1. 1
    effusively or insincerely emotional wordnet

Etymology

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

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