1. in a manner that involves bathos; in a way that falls suddenly from the elevated or serious to the trivial or ridiculous
Usage: literary; formal

Examples

• The hero's grand speech ended bathetically when he tripped over his own feet.
• The film shifted bathetically from a tense courtroom drama to a silly pie-eating contest.
• She described her journey through the mountains bathetically, concluding with complaints about the hotel's weak coffee.
• The novel's climax resolved bathetically, disappointing readers who expected a dramatic confrontation.
• He spoke bathetically about his life-changing experience, reducing it to a funny anecdote about getting lost.