Bathos is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BATHOS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the appearance of the commonplace in elevated matter
• (especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous
• sudden change from a serious subject to a trivial one
• A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
• triteness or triviality of style
• insincere pathos
• a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• triteness

Words related to BATHOS

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Words that contain BATHOS

bathoses13

How to use BATHOS in a sentence

• The top of the Jungfrau-Joch comes rather like a bathos in poetry.
• The plot shows none of those alarming pieces of incongruity and bathos which have marred some of her stories.
• He frequently drops at the close of the octave stanza into a prosaic couplet, which has all the effect of bathos.
• He resolved to build a play not on pathos, but on bathos.
• His pathos, as is the case with all weak writers, constantly trembles on the verge of bathos, while his lack of humour betrays him into penning passages of elaborate fatuity.
• As Constance saw the man full in the face, there was a bathos in her zeal, and she stopped, open-mouthed, and closed the book.
• Reaction came at last! Life is full of bathos as well as pathos.
• I attempted to see the affair as a slightly ridiculous episode that had occupied exactly twelve hours and ended with an inevitable bathos.
• I knew that any word of mine would inevitably precipitate the bathos of a civilised conversation.
• And yet this apparent bathos is apparent only, and the fact that so narrow and earthly a petition has its place in the pattern of all prayer is full of instruction.

Similar words containing BATHO without suffix s

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