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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BATHETIC

BATHETIC Ba *thet "ic, a.

Defn: Having the character of bathos. [R.]

New American Oxford Dictionary

bathetic

ba thet ic |bəˈTHetik bəˈθɛtɪk | ▶adjective producing an unintentional effect of anticlimax: the movie manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic.

Oxford Dictionary

bathetic

bathetic |bəˈθɛtɪk | ▶adjective producing an unintentional effect of anticlimax: the movie manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic.

Oxford Thesaurus

bathetic

bathetic adjective the show begins unpromisingly with a bathetic comedy: anticlimactic, disappointing, disillusioning; mawkish, sentimental.