Theatrical

Quick meaning: Theatrical is an adjective meaning Of or relating to the theatre.

Meaning

Of or relating to the theatre.

More Meanings

1. Fake and exaggerated.
2. A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.
3. A commercially produced film to be shown in movie theaters.
4. A person who works in theatre.

Example Sentences

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

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

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.

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.

Word Forms

• theatricals

Synonyms for theatrical

Depending on context, synonyms include dramatic, histrionic, scenic, theatric, thespian, affected.

Antonyms for theatrical

Common opposites include untheatrical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include histrionic, melodramatic, histrionics, showy, drama, theater.

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