bathos

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈbeɪθɒs/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. uncountable,usually
    — I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...
  2. A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to uncountable,usually
    — While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.
  3. A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:; An anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low. uncountable,usually
  4. A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:; A banality: an unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic. uncountable,usually
  5. A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:; Immaturity: a lack of serious treatment of a topic. uncountable,usually
  6. A risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:; A hyperbole: excessiveness. uncountable,usually
  7. The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect. uncountable,usually
  8. A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career. uncommon,uncountable,usually
    — How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!

词形变化

bathoses plural

词汇关系

近义词
banality triteness immaturity callowness chewing the scenery, hamminess
反义词
depth pathos nadir
衍生词
bathetic
相关词
comic relief

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.
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