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Webster 1913 Edition

Bathetic

Ba-thet′ic

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Adj.

Having the character of bathos.

[R.]

Definition 2024

bathetic

bathetic

English

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, p. 214.
  The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.