bathos

1. 1.

   triteness or triviality of style

   Broaderexpressive style
2. 2.

   insincere pathos

   Synonymsmawkishness

   Broadersentimentality
3. 3.

   a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one

   Synonymsanticlimax

   Broaderconclusion

   Part ofstory

Other forms of bathos

plural

bathoses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bathos

What does bathos mean?

bathos means "triteness or triviality of style". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bathos?

bathos has 2 syllables: ba-thos. The stress falls on "ba".

What is another word for bathos?

Close synonyms include mawkishness, anticlimax. 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 bathos a common word?

bathos is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.