Pathos Synonyms and Antonyms

pā'thŏs', -thôs'

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Synonyms for Pathos

pity
Pity is a feeling of sorrow or sympathy for someone or something.
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emotion
Any specific feeling; any of various complex reactions with both mental and physical manifestations, as love, hate, fear, anger, etc.
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feeling
The sense of touch:
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bathos
Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos:
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poignancy
The quality of being poignant
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sympathy
A feeling of approval of or agreement with an idea, cause, etc.
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desolation
Wretchedness; misery.
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sentiment
A thought, opinion, judgment, or attitude, usually the result of careful consideration, but often colored with emotion
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sadness
(Uncountable) The state or emotion of being sad.
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tenderness
Tenderness is gentleness, or is feelings of warmth and affection for someone or something, or is a soreness, or is the quality of being able to be easy to cut or chew.
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compassion
Deep awareness of the suffering of another accompanied by the wish to relieve it.
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sympathetic chord
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
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ruth
Ruth the Moabite, around whom the text centers.
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commiseration
The feeling or expression of pity or sorrow.
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Antonyms for Pathos

joy
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
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cheer
The definition of cheer is joy and gladness, or anything that is comforting.
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happiness
Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
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glee
(Uncountable) Joy; merriment; mirth; gaiety; particularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast.
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Words Related to Pathos

humour
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lyricism
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eroticism
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bleakness
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melodrama
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subtlety
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suspense
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Synonym Study

  • Poignancy implies an emotional quality, as sadness or pity, that is keenly felt, often to the point of being sharply painful
  • Bathos applies to a false or overdone pathos that is absurd in its effect
  • Pathos names that quality, in a real situation or in a literary or artistic work, which evokes sympathy and a sense of sorrow or pity
Find another word for pathos. In this page you can discover 32 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for pathos, like: pity, emotion, feeling, joy, bathos, humour, sentimentality, poignancy, sympathy, desolation and woe.
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Pathos Sentence Examples

  • The dramatic performance was rich in sad pathos and left the audience with teary eyes.

  • The pathos of the Children's Crusade of 1212 only nerved him to fresh efforts.

  • The tender, half-broken tones in which these words were said, the inexpressible pathos of his voice and manner, were never forgotten by those who heard that Wednesday morning speech.

  • The pathos at the underfunded orphanage left me overwhelmed.

  • The autobiography in Latin verse, with its playful humour, occasional pathos and sublime self-complacency, was thrown off at the age of eighty-four.

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