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sentimental
English
Etymology
sentiment +? -al
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?nti?m?ntl?/
- Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal
Adjective
sentimental (comparative more sentimental, superlative most sentimental)
- Characterized by sentiment, sentimentality or excess emotion.
- 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
- 2007, Steven Wilson, "Normal", Porcupine Tree, Nil Recurring.
- Derived from emotion rather than reason; of or caused by sentiment.
- Romantic.
Quotations
- 1885: Gilbert & Sullivan, The Mikado,
- Are you in sentimental mood?
- I'll sigh with you.
- 1944: Doris Day, Sentimental Journey,
- Gonna take a Sentimental Journey,
- Gonna set my heart at ease.
- Gonna make a Sentimental Journey,
- to renew old memories.
Antonyms
- unsentimental
Derived terms
- sentimentalism
- sentimentality
- sentimentally
Translations
Anagrams
- entailments
Catalan
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /s?n.ti.m?n?tal/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /sen.ti.men?tal/
Adjective
sentimental (masculine and feminine plural sentimentals)
- sentimental
Derived terms
- sentimentalisme
- sentimentalitat
- sentimentalment
Related terms
- sentiment
Further reading
- “sentimental” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??.ti.m??.tal/
- Homophones: sentimentale, sentimentales
Adjective
sentimental (feminine singular sentimentale, masculine plural sentimentaux, feminine plural sentimentales)
- sentimental
Further reading
- “sentimental” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Adjective
sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais)
- sentimental
Derived terms
- sentimentalidade
- sentimentalismo
- sentimentalmente
Related terms
- sentimento
Further reading
- “sentimental” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
German
Etymology
Borrowed from French.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?z?ntim?n?ta?l/
Adjective
sentimental (comparative sentimentaler, superlative am sentimentalsten)
- sentimental
Declension
Further reading
- “sentimental” in Duden online
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.
Adjective
sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)
- sentimental
Antonyms
- usentimental
References
- “sentimental” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English sentimental, ultimately from Latin sentimentum.
Adjective
sentimental (neuter singular sentimentalt, definite singular and plural sentimentale)
- sentimental
Antonyms
- usentimental
References
- “sentimental” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from French sentimental.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /s?.ti.m?.?ta?/
- Hyphenation: sen?ti?men?tal
- Rhymes: -aw
Adjective
sentimental m or f (plural sentimentais, comparable)
- sentimental
Romanian
Etymology
From French sentimental
Adjective
sentimental m or n (feminine singular sentimental?, masculine plural sentimentali, feminine and neuter plural sentimentale)
- sentimental
Declension
Related terms
- sentimentalism
- sentimentalitate
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sentimen?tal/, [s?n?.t?i.m?n??t?al]
Adjective
sentimental (plural sentimentales)
- sentimental
Derived terms
- sentimentalidad
- sentimentalismo
- sentimentalmente
- valor sentimental
Related terms
- sentimiento
Further reading
- “sentimental” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
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bathos
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (báthos, “depth”). Employed ironically following Alexander Pope's Peri Bathous, lampooning various errors in contemporary writers.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?be???s/
Noun
bathos (uncountable)
- Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
- (now uncommon) Depth.
- 1638, Robert Sanderson, "A sermon preached at Newport in the Isle of Wight", II.101:
- There is such a height, and depth, and length, and breadth in that love; such a ????? in every dimension of it.
- 1638, Robert Sanderson, "A sermon preached at Newport in the Isle of Wight", II.101:
- (literature, the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
- anticlimax: an abrupt transition in style or subject from high to low.
- banality: unaffectingly cliché or trite treatment of a topic.
- immaturity: lack of serious treatment of a topic.
- hyperbole: excessiveness
- (literature, the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
- (uncommon) A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.
- 1814, Thomas Jefferson, Writings, IV.240:
- How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!
- 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter XXI:
- I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.
- 2018, Matthew d'Ancona, The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape in the Guardian:[1]
- Thus can the ideology of the fringe, the pinstripe mutterings of the nativist few, end up determining the trajectory of an entire nation. This is where bathos meets tragedy.
- 1814, Thomas Jefferson, Writings, IV.240:
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
- (depth): See depth
- (artistic failure): pathos
- (nadir): See nadir
Translations
Further reading
- bathos on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- bathos at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- TAH-BSO
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