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Yes. The word bathos is a Scrabble US word. The word bathos is worth 11 points in Scrabble:

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Yes. The word bathos is a Scrabble UK word and has 11 points:

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6-letter words (2 found)

BATHOS,BOSHTA,

5-letter words (13 found)

BAHTS,BASHO,BASTO,BATHS,BHATS,BOAST,BOATS,BOTAS,HOAST,HOSTA,OATHS,SABOT,SHOAT,

4-letter words (38 found)

ABOS,BAHT,BAOS,BASH,BAST,BATH,BATS,BHAT,BOAS,BOAT,BOHS,BOSH,BOTA,BOTH,BOTS,HAOS,HAST,HATS,HOAS,HOBS,HOST,HOTS,OAST,OATH,OATS,OBAS,SHAT,SHOT,SOBA,SOTH,STAB,STOA,STOB,TABS,TAOS,TASH,TOSA,TOSH,

3-letter words (35 found)

ABO,ABS,AHS,ASH,ATS,BAH,BAO,BAS,BAT,BOA,BOH,BOS,BOT,HAO,HAS,HAT,HOA,HOB,HOS,HOT,OAT,OBA,OBS,OHS,SAB,SAT,SHA,SHO,SOB,SOH,SOT,TAB,TAO,TAS,THO,

2-letter words (16 found)

AB,AH,AS,AT,BA,BO,HA,HO,OB,OH,OS,SH,SO,ST,TA,TO,

You can make 104 words from bathos according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of bathos

bathos

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbeɪθɒs/
  • Rhymes: -eɪθɒs

Noun

bathos (usually uncountable, plural bathoses)

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

Synonyms

  • (anticlimax): See anticlimax
  • (artistic failure through banality): banality, triteness
  • (artistic failure through triviality): immaturity, callowness
  • (artistic failure through hyperbole): chewing the scenery, hamminess
  • (artistic failure through overdone pathos): sappiness, cheesiness, tweeness, treacliness

Antonyms

  • (antonym(s) of "depth"): See depth
  • (antonym(s) of "artistic failure"): pathos
  • (antonym(s) of "nadir"): See nadir

Translations

See also

  • comic relief

Further reading

  • bathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • “bathos”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

  • TAH-BSO

Dutch

Etymology

From Ancient Greek βάθος (báthos, “depth”).

Noun

bathos m (uncountable)

  1. bathos
    Coordinate terms: logos, ethos, pathos

Further reading

  • bathos on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl

Source: wiktionary.org