Dramatic

/dɹəˈmætɪk/ · adjective

Meaning

Of or relating to the drama..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of or relating to the drama.
2. Striking in appearance or effect.
3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
4. (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.

Example Sentences

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.

The Orestea is in effect one great single tragedy in three separate parts, each with its own dramatic purpose, yet harmonized by a common inspiration—three great acts of a drama, simple but complex; the whole, as its component members, showing unity of action in rise, crisis, and fall, and progressing in a series of like orderly stages toward a definite dramatic goal.

a dramatic view of the Alps

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.

Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.

Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding […] Daniels warned in the message that the dramatic cut in USAID funding will result in “impacts to budgets, personnel, and programs.”

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

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• more dramatic
• most dramatic
• dramatick

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