bathetic
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /bəˈθetɪk/
Adjective
bathetic (comparative more bathetic, superlative most bathetic)
- Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
- 1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, page 214:
- The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.
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