Antonyms for bathos
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bey-thos, -thaws, -thohs |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbeɪ θɒs, -θɔs, -θoʊs |
Definition 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
- 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
Synonyms for bathos
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