bathetic

Questions about bathetic

What does bathetic mean?

bathetic means "effusively or insincerely emotional".

How many syllables are in bathetic?

bathetic has 3 syllables: ba-the-tic. The stress falls on "the".

What is another word for bathetic?

Close synonyms include drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bathetic a common word?

bathetic is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.