English-Thai Dictionary

bathos

N การเสแสร้ง สงสาร หรือ เห็นใจ มากเกินไป  sentimentality kan-se-saeng-song-san-rue-hen-jai-mak-koen-pai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BATHOS

n.The art of sinking in poetry.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BATHOS

Ba "thos, n. Etym: [Gr. depth, fr. deep. ] (Rhet.)

 

Defn: A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

bathos

ba thos |ˈbāTHäs ˈbeɪˌθɑs | ▶noun (esp. in a work of literature ) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (first recorded in the Greek sense ): from Greek, literally ‘depth. ’ The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th cent.

 

Oxford Dictionary

bathos

bathos |ˈbeɪθɒs | ▶noun [ mass noun ] (especially in a literary work ) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (first recorded in the Greek sense ): from Greek, literally ‘depth ’. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th cent.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

bathos

bathos noun the story ends with such a stroke of bathos, you're not sure whether to laugh or scream: anticlimax, letdown, disappointment, disillusionment; absurdity; informal comedown. WORD NOTE bathos There are a couple of good reasons not to use the word bathos without severe provocation. For one thing, it means "an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous, " so if you're describing a bathetic situation, chances are the language you're using to describe the trivial or ridiculous situation won't support the use of an elevated word like bathos. When you use an overelevated word in writing that's not so elevated, you're pulling the reader out of your writing, usually with a jerk. Also, many more people know the opposite of bathos, pathos (a quality that evokes pity or sadness )—so the risk that your readers will think it's just a typo (and that you mean exactly the opposite of what you actually mean ) is a real one. — EM Conversational, opinionated, and idiomatic, these Word Notes are an opportunity to see a working writer's perspective on a particular word or usage.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

bathos

bathos noun his epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos: anticlimax, let-down, disappointment, disillusionment; mawkishness, sentimentality; informal comedown.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

bathos

ba thos /béɪθɑs |-θɔs /〖＜ギリシャ 〗名詞 U 1 〘修辞 〙(文章 スピーチ ドラマなどの )頓降 （とんこう ）[漸降 （ぜんこう ）, 急落 ]法 ; 竜頭蛇尾 (anticlimax ) 〘高い格調から平凡 [こっけい ]な調子へ急転落する表現法 〙.2 (文体などの )陳腐さ, 平凡さ .3 (見せかけの わざとらしい )過度の感傷 .4 (境遇などの )どん底, 最低 .ba thet ic /bəθétɪk /形容詞