dramatic

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suitable to or characteristic of drama

   a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape

2. 2
   adj

   sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect

   a dramatic sunset

3. 3
   adj

   used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style

   a dramatic tenor

4. 4
   adj

   pertaining to or characteristic of drama

   dramatic arts

5. 5
   adj

   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.

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   adj

   Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.

   You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!

8. 8
   adj

   Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

Etymology

Etymology tree Ancient Greek δρᾰ́ω (drắō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Ancient Greek -τις (-tis) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τῐκός (-tĭkós) Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)lbor. English dramatic Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós), from δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós). By surface analysis, drama + -tic.