bathetic
/bəˈθɛtɪk
/adjective
Producing an unintentional effect of anticlimax: the movie manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic...
- Yes, it could be shorter, even though some story lines are crudely truncated, and the four false endings are a bathetic anti-climax, but Jackson's journey benefits from the lulls.
- This line could be a motto for his work, which uses unremarkable language to great effect - here registering a disappointment so pervasive that even its expression is bathetic.
- The ‘fear’ argument is absurd, bathetic, and self-congratulatory.
Synonyms
anticlimactic, disappointing, disillusioning;
mawkish, sentimental
