Bathetic

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /bəˈθetɪk/

Full definition of bathetic

Adjective

1. Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
• 1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, p. 214.The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.