noun Download 🔗Share Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. Examples : "The politician's speech, filled with forced tears and exaggerated stories of hardship, was pure bathos, failing to move anyone and instead eliciting only awkward silence. " literature style art language writing entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share Depth. Examples : "The play started with intense drama, but the forced, sentimental ending quickly descended into bathos, leaving the audience disappointed. " literature style Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to Examples : "The movie's dramatic climax, intended to be deeply moving, devolved into bathos when the hero, instead of delivering a powerful speech, slipped on a banana peel. " art literature style entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share (the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect. Examples : "The play was building to a dramatic climax, but the hero tripping over a cat at the crucial moment introduced a sudden and hilarious bathos that had the audience roaring with laughter. " art literature entertainment Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading
noun Download 🔗Share A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career. Examples : "After getting fired from the prestigious law firm and then failing to open his own practice, his career reached a real bathos. " achievement negative job business Chat with AIVocabulary GamePractice Reading