How to pronounce “bathos”

Meaning

• [Noun]
• Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
• (literature, art) A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
• (literature, art) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
• (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

Practice Nearby Words

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