bathetic

Questions about bathetic

What does bathetic mean?

bathetic means "effusively or insincerely emotional".

How many syllables are in bathetic?

bathetic has 3 syllables and divides as ba-the-tic under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.