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Dramatic

//dɹəˈmætɪk// adj, slang

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Adjective

1
Of or relating to the drama.
"Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord."
2
Striking in appearance or effect.
"Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family."
3
Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
4
Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention. informal
"You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!"

Adjective

1
suitable to or characteristic of drama wordnet
2
sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect wordnet
3
used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style wordnet
4
pertaining to or characteristic of drama wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”). By surface analysis, drama + -tic.

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