Definitions
a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one
Word origin
Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.
Used in a sentence
“I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment...”
“While a plain and direct Road is pav'd to their ὐψος, or sublime; no Track has been yet chalk'd out to arrive at our βάθος, or profund.”
“How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Comic anticlimax”6 letters
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