dramatic
See also: dramàtic
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”). By surface analysis, drama + -tic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)
- Of or relating to the drama.
- 1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
- 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.
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430:
- 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.
- 2013 August 17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:
- Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!
Derived terms
[edit]- antidramatic
- cyberdramatic
- dramastic
- dramatically
- dramatic beat
- dramatic irony
- dramaticism
- dramaticity
- dramaticness
- dramatic present
- dramatic structure
- dramaticule
- dramatic unity
- dramatism
- hyperdramatic
- metadramatic
- microdramatic
- monodramatic
- musicodramatic
- nondramatic
- overdramatic
- photodramatic
- postdramatic
- protodramatic
- pseudodramatic
- psychodramatic
- semidramatic
- sociodramatic
- superdramatic
- teledramatic
- theodramatic
- underdramatic
- undramatic
Descendants
[edit]- → Japanese: ドラマティック (doramatikku)
Translations
[edit]of or relating to the drama
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striking in appearance or effect
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having a powerful, expressive singing voice
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Further reading
[edit]- "dramatic" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 109.
Romanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French dramatique, from Latin dramaticus. Equivalent to dramă + -atic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dramatic m or n (feminine singular dramatică, masculine plural dramatici, feminine and neuter plural dramatice)
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | |||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | dramatic | dramatică | dramatici | dramatice | |||
| definite | dramaticul | dramatica | dramaticii | dramaticele | ||||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | dramatic | dramatice | dramatici | dramatice | |||
| definite | dramaticului | dramaticei | dramaticelor | dramaticilor | ||||
Further reading
[edit]- dramatic in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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