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bathetic
adjective
(ba-thet-ic)
effusively or insincerely emotional
Synonyms:
drippy
,
hokey
,
kitschy
,
maudlin
,
mawkish
,
mushy
,
sappy
,
schmaltzy
,
schmalzy
,
sentimental
,
slushy
,
soppy
,
soupy
,
Examples:
A bathetic novel.
Words Related to
bathetic
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mawkish
,
maudlin
,
schmaltzy
,
sentimental
,
mushy
,
emotional
,
slushy
,
schmalzy
,
melodramatic
,
overwrought
,
treacly
,
lachrymose
,
lugubrious
,
saccharine
,
hackneyed
,
trite
,
plangent
,
unpoetic
,
histrionic
,
banal
,
dolorous
,
elegiac
,
grandiloquent
,
droll
,
puerile
,
risible
,
doleful
,
stagy
,
platitudinous
,
comical
,
jejune
,
overfamiliar
,
swiftian
,
unaffecting
,
mirthless
,
pantomimic
,
sententious
,
sophoclean
,
pythonesque
,
wordsworthian
,
rebarbative
,
overdetermined
,
onanistic
,
stagey
,
turgid
,
teacherly
,
leaden
,
deathless
,
parodic
,
dostoevskian
,
shavian
,
jocose
,
portentous
,
piteous
,
unamusing
,
florid
,
neurasthenic
,
scabrous
,
cloying
,
overlong
,
prolix
,
nabokovian
,
baleful
,
querulous
,
mozartian
,
gimcrack
,
falstaffian
,
pompous
,
uninflected
,
unheroic
,
authorial
,
tragicomic
,
reproachful
,
hagiographic
,
larky
,
bromidic
,
bilious
,
orotund
,
lumpish
,
unwonted
,
hammy
,
apparitional
,
toneless
,
declamatory
,
desolating
,
digressive
,
dramaturgical
,
mordant
,
somnambulistic
,
seriocomic
,
witless
,
fatuous
,
jamesian
,
acidulous
,
melismatic
,
dunderheaded
,
beethovenian
,
praiseful
,
postmodern
,
artless
,
bathetic
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