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dramatic
adjective
1 dramatic
2 dramatic
Sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect:
— A dramatic sunset.
— A dramatic pause.
synonyms: spectacular, striking.
Roget 882:
ostentatious,
showy,
dashing,
pretentious;
janty†,
jaunty;
grand,
pompous,
palatial;
high-sounding;
turgid
etc.
(big-sounding)
577;
gairish†,
garish;
gaudy,
gaudy as a peacock,
gaudy as a butterfly,
gaudy as a tulip;
flaunting,
flashing,
flaming,
glittering;
gay
etc.
(ornate)
847.
splendid,
magnificent,
sumptuous.
theatrical,
dramatic,
spectacular;
ceremonial,
ritual.
solemn,
stately,
majestic,
formal,
stiff,
ceremonious,
punctilious,
starched.
dressed to kill,
dressed to the nines,
decjed out,
all decked out,
en granite tenue [Fr.],
in best bib and tucker,
in Sunday best,
endimanch_e,
chic.
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3 dramatic
Pertaining to or characteristic of drama.
Polish: dramatyczny
4 dramatic
Used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style.
Moby thesaurus: Alcaic, Anacreontic, Castalian, Homeric, Hudibrastic, Pierian, Pindaric, Theocritean, actor-proof, all-star, alto, ballet, balletic, bardic, baritone, bass, bravura, breathtaking, bucolic, choral, choric, cinematic, cinematographic, coloratura, colorful, complete, considerable, didactic, dithyrambic, dramatical, dramatist, dramatizer, dramaturge, dramaturgic, eclogic, effective, elegiac, epic, exaggerated, expressive, extraordinary, falsetto, film, filmic, flamboyant, graphic, ham, hammy, heroic, histrionic, hymnal, idyllic, impressive, legitimate, liturgical, lyric, major, marked, melodramatic, milked, mock-heroic, monodramatic, movie, narrative, noticeable, operatic, overacted, overdone, overplayed, pastoral, poetic, poetico-mystical, poetico-mythological, poetico-philosophic, poetlike, psalmic, psalmodial, psalmodic, radical, rhapsodic, runic, sacred, sapphic, scenic, sensational, shocking, showy, singing, skaldic, soprano, spectacular, stage, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, startling, stellar, stirring, striking, sudden, tenor, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, treble, underacted, underplayed, vaudevillian, vivid, vocal ... show more.
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