Synonyms for bathos

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bey-thos, -thaws, -thohs

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ θɒs, -θɔs, -θoʊs

Définition of bathos

Origin : "anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," related to bathys "deep" (see benthos). Introduced by Pope.

noun sentimentality

Example sentences :

It was an anti-climax, a bathos, of which St. Augustine is seldom guilty.
Extract from : « My New Curate » by P.A. Sheehan

There is sometimes, too, a falling off, not far removed from the Bathos.
Extract from : « A Pindarick Ode on Painting » by Thomas Morrison

One of their favourite blunders is an amazing sort of bathos.
Extract from : « Utopia of Usurers and other Essays » by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Outwardly cynical, he was sentimental to the point of bathos.
Extract from : « Narcissus » by Evelyn Scott

Then will come the crowning event, after which all must necessarily be bathos.
Extract from : « Girls of the True Blue » by L. T. Meade

It was called, by a kind of bathos in nomenclature, “America.”
Extract from : « The Indian in his Wigwam » by Henry R. Schoolcraft

The romance of these remarkable espousals was not to find its conclusion in bathos.
Extract from : « Vendetta » by Marie Corelli

Under the circumstances, there was bathos amid the poor girl's pathos!
Extract from : « Wanted: A Cook » by Alan Dale

This may be bathos in individual cases, yet it is the offspring of truth.
Extract from : « Scribner's Magazine, Volume 26, July 1899 » by Various

"The ghost of God," I answered, in what she must have thought a tone of bathos!
Extract from : « The Last Miracle » by M. P. Shiel

Antonyms for bathos

boon

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