🎭bathetic

adjective
/bəˈθɛt.ɪk/

Meaning

displaying insincere or trivial emotion; producing an unintended ridiculous effect through sudden change from serious to silly

Example Sentences

The movie's ending was unintentionally bathetic rather than tragic.

Synonyms

sentimental, silly, anticlimactic, mawkish, trivial

Antonyms

serious, profound, tragic

Collocations

bathetic ending, bathetic story, bathetic scene, bathetic humor

Related Vocabularies

existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden; dormant
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