Pronounced: VIH-suh-ruhl, adj
Notes: I’ve certainly run across this word, but found that I could not define it to my satisfaction
Yesterday’s word
The word bathos means “an abrupt descent from lofty or sublime to the commonplace; anticlimax”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1600s
Background / Comments
Our word looks like ‘pathos’, but the meanings are quite different. I cannot recall where I may have seen this word. Our word comes from the Greek word bathos (depth).
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