Antonyms for pathos


Grammar : Noun
Spell : pey-thos, -thohs, -thaws
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpeɪ θɒs, -θoʊs, -θɔs


Definition of pathos

Origin :
  • "quality that arouses pity or sorrow," 1660s, from Greek pathos "suffering, feeling, emotion, calamity," literally "what befalls one," related to paskhein "to suffer," and penthos "grief, sorrow;" from PIE root *kwent(h)- "to suffer, endure" (cf. Old Irish cessaim "I suffer," Lithuanian kenčiu "to suffer," pakanta "patience").
  • noun deep sadness
Example sentences :
  • Into these last words there crept the pathos of one who knew.
  • Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
  • They have left here the marks of tragedy, of pathos, or of joy.
  • Extract from : « Tiverton Tales » by Alice Brown
  • Our disaster was too awful, and the pathos of that solitary survivor too piercing.
  • Extract from : « The Comrade In White » by W. H. Leathem
  • The poem is full of pathos and humour; full of beauty and grandeur, earnestness and truth.
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • Her beautiful eyes, so full of pathos, so full of remorse, looked straight into his.
  • Extract from : « The Law-Breakers » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • It was the pathos of Meg herself—not the fact that she had to work—that appealed to Miles.
  • Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
  • "Forgive me," she said, and there was a strain of pathos in her voice.
  • Extract from : « Cleo The Magnificent » by Louis Zangwill
  • The element of comicality in this aspect of war is greatly outweighed by that of pathos.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • Surely that is a lovely story, full of real sweetness and pathos.
  • Extract from : « The Little Manx Nation - 1891 » by Hall Caine
  • The pathos of the situation and the Eironeia at its maximum.
  • Extract from : « Cyropaedia » by Xenophon

Synonyms for pathos

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