{UAH} WORD OF THE DAY March 11, 2019----bathetic

WORD OF THE DAY March 11, 2019

bathetic    adjective | buh-THET-ik     Definition   : characterized by triteness or sentimentalism   Scroll down for more about bathetic      TRENDING NOW: trope self-made churlish perdition SEE ALL      PEOPLE ARE READING   The Good, The Bad, & The Semantically Imprecise - 3/8/19       'Shard' — Video Word of the Day 3/8/2019     How and When to Use 'Sometime' and 'Anytime'       A Look at Uncommon Onomatopoeia         WORD GAMES AND QUIZZES: WEEKLY CHALLENGE   Return of Name that Color!   Additional colors! More obscure than before!     PLAY NOW     Nailed this quiz? We have plenty more to try!  TAKE ME THERE         Did You Know?   When English speakers turned apathy into apathetic in the late 17th century, using the suffix -etic to turn the noun into the adjective, they were inspired by pathetic, the adjectival form of pathos, from Greek pathētikos. People also applied that bit of linguistic transformation to coin bathetic. English speakers added the suffix -etic to bathos, the Greek word for "depth," which in Englishhas come to mean "triteness" or "excessive sentimentalism." The result: the ideal adjective for the incredibly commonplace or the overly sentimental.     Examples of BATHETIC   "The TV people inevitably reduce history to a series of bathetic tropes: the flag waving in slow motion, the rescued puppy, the evacuee given the star treatment of American Idol." — Matthew Power, Harper's, December 2005   "A vein of knowingness runs through it, a gently comic self-portrait of a lost soul out of time, as when Pierce casts himself in the bathetic role of a 'lonely rock and roller' hankering to hear Big Star on the radio." — Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, The Financial Times, 7 Sept. 2018   Word Family Quiz   What does the noun isobath refer to? [Hint: It involves cartography and geology.]   VIEW THE ANSWER           WORD OF THE YEAR 2018     Justice + 10 more   Read why justice is our Word of the Year, plus lodestar, epiphany, pansexual, and 7 more top words!   SEE THE FULL LIST            MORE WORD FUN:     WORD GAMES          TRENDING NOW          WORDS AT PLAY      FOLLOW US:

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