bathetic

bathetic Definition

ba·thetic (bə t̸het′ik)

adjective

characterized by bathos

Etymology: < bathos by analogy with pathetic

bathetic Related Forms

ba·thet′i·cally adverb

bathetic Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

effect: Again this is for a bathetic effect - to make the reader laugh and make the author sound silly and absurd.
anecdote: The nameless Central American nation that Goldman has invented from his knowledge of Guatemala is a zone of bathetic anecdotes.

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