Pronounced: kuh-NICK-yuh-luhr, adj
Notes: I’ve not run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word bathetic means “characterized by triteness or sentimentalism”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word is the noun-to-adjective ending -etic combined with the noun bathos (a ludicrous descent from the exalted to the commonplace; triteness; triviality) , which came from the Greek word bathos (depth).
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