Usually means: Sudden, absurd decline in tone.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bathos: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bathos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bathos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bathos: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bathos: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bathos, bathos: Wordnik
  7. bathos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bathos: Wiktionary
  9. bathos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bathos: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bathos: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bathos, bathos: Dictionary.com
  13. bathos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bathos (EP), Bathos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Bathos: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bathos: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bathos: Rhymezone
  18. Bathos: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bathos: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Bathos: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  21. bathos: Free Dictionary
  22. bathos: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. bathos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bathos: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bathos: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. BATHOS: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bathos: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bathos: A Word A Day
  2. bathos: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bathos: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
noun:  (now uncommon) Depth.
noun:  (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to:
noun:  anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
noun:  banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.
noun:  immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
noun:  hyperbole: excessiveness
noun:  (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
noun:  (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

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