English Dictionary

bathos

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈbeɪθɒs/

名詞

不可算名詞 通常 稀用

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos. / (now uncommon) Depth. / anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

日本語の意味

感情を過度に刺激しようとする、ありふれた感傷表現。または、感傷的な効果を狙いすぎた試み。 / （現代ではあまり用いられない）深さ。 / アンチクライマックス、すなわち高尚な状態から低俗な状態へ急激に転じる様子。

The film's finale descended into bathos, substituting cheap tear-jerkers for genuine emotion.

その映画の結末は陳腐な感傷に陥り、本物の感情の代わりに安っぽい涙を誘う演出を用いていた。

意味（1）

Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...

意味（2）

(now uncommon) Depth.

There is such a height, and depth, and length, and breadth in that love; such a βάθος in every dimension of it.

意味（3）

anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.

意味（4）

banality: unaffectingly clichéd or trite treatment of a topic.

意味（5）

immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.

意味（6）

hyperbole: excessiveness

意味（7）

(literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.

意味（8）

(uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!

bathoses （ plural ）