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Are bathetic and lugubrious really synonims? To me both words have certain links but their meanings are not similar.
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In my personal opinion, "lugubrious" seems more like a personality trait and "bathetic" is more descriptive of an incident or a particular scene. When we saw an actor really hamming up a sad scene (I'm talking to you, Billy Crystal and Robin Williams), my dad would say, "When pathos turned to bathos..."
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jcbarros wrote:Are bathetic and lugubrious really synonims? To me both words have certain links but their meanings are not similar. These law terms are out of my mind, can you explain it
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