What is another word for bathetic?
315 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ be͡ɪðˈɛtɪk], [ beɪðˈɛtɪk], [ b_eɪ_ð_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]
Bathetic is an adjective that describes something that is overly sentimental or excessively emotional in a way that makes it seem insincere or maudlin. Synonyms for bathetic include saccharine, overly dramatic, cloying, mawkish, sentimental, or corny. These words all have a negative connotation and are used to describe writing, music, or art that is overly sentimental or tries too hard to elicit an emotional response. Bathetic is often used to describe movies or books with predictable plots and endings that rely too heavily on melodrama or sentimentality. The use of these synonyms can help writers avoid creating work that feels insincere or overwrought.
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Similar words for bathetic:
- all (adjective)
- gushy (adjective)
- maudlin (adjective)
- mawkish (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overused (adjective)
- romantic (adjective)
- sappy (adjective)
- schmaltzy (adjective)
- stereotypical (adjective)
- tear-jerking (adjective)
- threadbare (adjective)
- trite (adjective)
- warmed-over (adjective)
- bathetic (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- other synonyms
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Bathetic:
adj.
• all (adjective) • gushy (adjective) • maudlin (adjective)- in-sipid,
- be fuddled,
- most cornball,
- slushest,
- soapest,
- more syrupy,
- most syrupy,
- be-fuddled,
- more cornball,
- in sipid.
- more loveydovey,
- most lovey-dovey,
- more lovey-dovey,
- more lovey dovey,
- most lovey dovey,
- more cloying,
- most loveydovey,
- loveydovey.
- soppy,
- soaper,
- gushy,
- syrupy,
- slushy,
- readymade,
- used up,
- maudlin,
- rosewater,
- fairy-tale,
- sobby,
- warmed-over,
- platitudinal,
- overemotional,
- cornball,
- soupy,
- Mildewed,
- mawkish,
- romantic,
- familiar tune,
- over-emotional,
- drippy,
- overused,
- mushy,
- used-up,
- trite,
- platitudinous,
- run of the mill,
- tear-jerking,
- slusher,
- soap,
- tearful,
- schmaltzy,
- querulous,
- chainer,
- fairytale,
- lovey dovey,
- stereotypic,
- sappy,
- lovey-dovey,
- threadbare,
- stereotypical.
- most fairy tale,
- un realistic,
- most fairytale,
- more fairy-tale,
- un-realistic,
- ex citing,
- most fairy-tale,
- more fairytale,
- starryeyed,
- more fairy tale,
- starry eyed.
- most overemotional,
- most rosewater,
- over emotional,
- more overemotional,
- most simpering,
- more simpering,
- more rosewater.
n.
• bathetic (noun) • Other relevant words: (noun)Other synonyms:
• Other relevant words:- lenient,
- platitude,
- scoop,
- dingy,
- amatory,
- anticlimactical,
- mirky,
- quixotic,
- diffused,
- untoughened,
- soggy,
- watery-eyed,
- flaccid,
- raw,
- tippy,
- liquid ecstasy,
- cranky,
- crank,
- cutter,
- burbling,
- echoic,
- turbid,
- awkward,
- earthy,
- saccharine,
- quaggy,
- everyday,
- homy,
- vernacular,
- honeyed,
- stereotyped,
- loose-fitting,
- max,
- lather,
- cock-and-bull story,
- viscid,
- haphazard,
- indulgent,
- sloughy,
- homelike,
- whiny,
- piano,
- onomatopoeic,
- glutinous,
- languid,
- spineless,
- murky,
- unglamorous,
- unimaginative,
- supply ship,
- lachrymose,
- tired,
- mucilaginous,
- worked up,
- weeping,
- ship's boat,
- moldy,
- muddy up,
- aroused,
- ready-made,
- homey,
- burbly,
- workaday,
- flabby,
- pasty,
- subdued,
- romanticist,
- bid,
- boggy,
- sameness,
- steamy,
- fretful,
- unreal,
- affectionate,
- sensitive,
- unremarkable,
- onomatopoeical,
- easy,
- languorous,
- offer,
- nondescript,
- slipshod,
- shopworn,
- easy lay,
- fond,
- wild-eyed,
- uncouth,
- dreamy,
- squashy,
- diffuse,
- tenderise,
- dolorous,
- crude,
- viscous,
- embarrassing,
- gross,
- slapdash,
- teary-eyed,
- pinnace,
- muggy,
- unwashed,
- voiced,
- plebeian,
- legal tender,
- grievous bodily harm,
- gummy,
- attender,
- unenviable,
- waterlogged,
- effusive,
- muddied,
- goop,
- sonant,
- excited,
- song and dance,
- sore,
- mild,
- musty,
- cushy,
- gentle,
- easygoing,
- onomatopoetic,
- stock,
- coarse,
- miry,
- prosaic,
- monotony,
- banality,
- gluey,
- lovesome,
- balmy,
- amorous,
- icky,
- dolourous,
- routine,
- tenderize,
- pouring,
- swampy,
- bromidic,
- unglamourous,
- bromide,
- romanticistic,
- baggy,
- cloudy,
- fairy story,
- delicate,
- attendant,
- treacly,
- mucky,
- wishy-washy,
- whiney,
- fairy tale,
- stamp,
- monotonous,
- corny,
- dirty,
- counterfeit,
- gutless,
- common,
- plain,
- mundane,
- old-hat,
- honied,
- rough-cut,
- marshy,
- timeworn.
How to use "Bathetic" in context?
The word "bathetic" is derived from the Latin term "batheticus," meaning "making fun of." It has been used in English to describe something that is comic but also dull or failed. A person or thing that is bathetic is laughable but not actually enjoyable.
Homophones for Bathetic:
- betise, biotic, bodacious, budge, bawdyhouse, bioattack, buttocks, biotitic, butch, bad egg, bedaze, boethius, bootjack, beads, botchy, Bydgoszcz, boat deck, beta decay, bioethics, bitchy, bats, bowditch, bad check, batch, Bad Cheque, bootes, boathouse, boutique, bad guy, bed check, badaga, Botox, bodice, bitok, buttock, bathos, boat hook, bodega, beats, Bodge, boothose, baptise, beauteous, budgie, baptisia, bewitch, bedeck, booby hatch, bitis, batik, botch, baby doc, bathhouse, badge, batis, baptize, bvd's, batidaceae.
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