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bathetic - Word of the Day - Thu Sep 22, 2022

Myr

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bathetic - (adj) - characterized by triteness or sentimentalism

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I am developing a growing bethetic feeling for a time when Hollywood produced anything entertaining.

 

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The base word is from the Greek bathos. It shouldn't be surprising pathetic, from pathos, and bathetic were coined simultaneously in the 17th century.

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