theatrical

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater

   a theatrical pose

2. 2
   adj

   Of or relating to the theatre.

   12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.

3. 3
   adj

   Fake and exaggerated.

   The ceremony and its scene were characterised by that high sense of the theatrical which has marked the activities of the Third Reich.

4. 4
   noun

   A commercially produced film to be shown in movie theaters.

   Release schedules were stepped up so that virtually all of the summer theatricals are coming to video before year's end.

5. 5
   noun

   A person who works in theatre.

   Both of her parents were theatricals — that is, the father played the violin and the mother attempted to dance but later she dropped the pretence.

6. 6
   adj

   of or relating to the theater

7. 7
   noun

   a performance of a play

8. 8
   noun

   A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.

Etymology

From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.