Bathetic vs Bathetically - What's the difference?
bathetic | bathetically |
Characterized by or pertaining to bathos .
* 1995 , Rupert D. V. Glasgow,
In a bathetic manner.
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As an adjective bathetic
is characterized by or pertaining to bathos .As an adverb bathetically is
in a bathetic manner.bathetic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)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.