HyperDic: bathetic

English > 1 sense of the word bathetic:
ADJECTIVEallbathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushyeffusively or insincerely emotional
English > bathetic: 1 sense > adjective 1
Meaningeffusively or insincerely emotional.
Example"a bathetic novel"
Synonymsdrippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, sappy, soppy, soupy, slushy
BroaderemotionalOf more than usual emotion
Spanishlloraduelos, llorica, remilgado, sensiblero, sentimentaloide
Catalanllagrimós, sentimental

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