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In writing, bathos is the sudden change from a subject that is serious and important to one that is ordinary, silly, and unimportant.
The adjective blithe indicates that someone does something casually or in a carefree fashion without much concern for the end result; as a result, they are happy and lighthearted.
If you describe a person’s behavior as brazen, you mean that they are not embarrassed by anything they do—they simply don’t care what other people think about them.
Someone in a buoyant mood is in good spirits.
When you cavort, you jump and dance around in a playful, excited, or physically lively way.
Someone who is dour is serious, stubborn, and unfriendly; they can also be gloomy.
Someone who is effusive expresses happiness, pleasure, admiration, praise, etc., in an extremely enthusiastic way.
If something enthralls you, it makes you so interested and excited that you give it all your attention.
A state of euphoria is one of extreme happiness or overwhelming joy.
If you exult, you show great pleasure and excitement, especially about something you have achieved.
If someone gambols, they run, jump, and play like a young child or animal.
Someone who is jocular is cheerful and often makes jokes or tries to make people laugh.
If someone is lugubrious, they are looking very sad or gloomy.
A maudlin person acts in a sad, silly, sentimental, and overly emotional way.
Something is mawkish when it is overly sentimental and silly in an embarrassing way.
If you are melancholy, you look and feel sad.
Someone who is morose is unhappy, bad-tempered, and unwilling to talk very much.
If you feel nostalgic about a happy time in the past, you are feeling sad when you think about it and wish that things had not changed or long for their return.
Someone who is saturnine is looking miserable and sad, sometimes in a threatening or unfriendly way.
A spartan lifestyle is very simple and severe; it has no luxuries or comforts.
A stoic person does not show their emotions and does not complain when bad things happen to them.
A taciturn person is quiet or silent by nature.
Adj.
lachrymose
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Context
Henrietta loved emotional movies and so often went to sentimental, lachrymose films knowing full well that she would cry openly. Henrietta’s sister Hannah was the opposite of her lachrymose, weepy sibling, preferring exciting action movies. It was, however, Henrietta’s birthday, so Hannah went with her to yet another lachrymose, sad movie, even though it annoyed her. The lachrymose Henrietta, meanwhile, smiled happily through her flood of tears.
Quiz:Try again!
What is someone likely to say while reading lachrymose poetry?
“This poem creates such a heavy burden of guilt in me that I can hardly bear it.”
“These poems are filled with such sorrow; I can’t help but feel like I might weep.”
“The words of this poem are so inspirational; I feel ready to try something new.”
Cry the MostLachrymose Lala does cry the most, over almost anything and everything.
Examples
Not even the most lachrymose of created beings can weep always, and it is only human nature’s law that there must be a smiling moment somewhere.
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The New York Times
As weepers go, this one is on the dry side—even the most lachrymose viewers could dry off with what lint they have on them.
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The Washington Post
This is an age in which the Vice President, in consecutive convention speeches, makes lachrymose use, first, of a son’s accident, then of a sister’s death.
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CNN
Crying Wife Perhaps a tad too lachrymose over Star Wars?
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