Adjective: bathetic bu'the-tik
- Disappointing in contrast to what was expected or hoped for
"The movie's bathetic ending left audiences disappointed";
- anticlimactic, anticlimactical [rare]
- Effusively or insincerely emotional
"a bathetic novel";
- drippy [informal], hokey [N. Amer, informal], maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy [informal], schmaltzy [informal], schmalzy [informal], sentimental, sappy [informal], soppy [Brit, informal], soupy [informal], slushy [informal], corny [informal], cutesy [informal], gooey [informal], weepy [informal], cheesy [informal]
See also: cornball [N. Amer, informal], emotional, lovey-dovey [informal]
Encyclopedia: Bathetic