"dramatic" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /dɹəˈmætɪk/ Audio: En-us-dramatic.ogg [US] Forms: more dramatic [comparative], most dramatic [superlative]
Etymology: From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|grc|δραματικός}} Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), {{m|grc|δρᾶμα||drama, play}} δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), {{m|grc|δράω||I do, accomplish}} δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)
  1. Of or relating to the drama. Translations (of or relating to the drama): դրամատիկական (dramatikakan) (Armenian), դրամատիկ (dramatik) (Armenian), драматичен (dramatičen) (Bulgarian), dramàtic (Catalan), 戲劇的 (Chinese Mandarin), 戏剧的 (xìjù de) (Chinese Mandarin), dramatický (Czech), dramatisk (Danish), dramatisch (Dutch), draamallinen (Finnish), dramatique (French), dramático (Galician), dramatisch (German), drámai (Hungarian), drammatico (Italian), 극적 (geukjeok) (alt: 劇的) (Korean), dramatisk (Norwegian Bokmål), dramatisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), dramatyczny (Polish), dramático (Portuguese), dramatic (Romanian), драмати́ческий (dramatíčeskij) (Russian), dramático (Spanish), dramatisk (Swedish), ድራማዊ (dəramawi) (Tigrinya), dramatik (Turkish), драмати́чний (dramatýčnyj) (Ukrainian), דראַמאַטיש (dramatish) (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-dramatic-en-adj-cGCLNotH Disambiguation of 'of or relating to the drama': 100 0 0 0
  2. Striking in appearance or effect. Categories (topical): Personality Translations (striking in appearance or effect): դրամատիկական (dramatikakan) (Armenian), драматичен (dramatičen) (Bulgarian), 戲劇性的 (Chinese Mandarin), 戏剧性的 (xìjùxìng de) (Chinese Mandarin), dramatisk (Danish), dramatisch (Dutch), dramaattinen (Finnish), spectaculaire (French), dramatique (French), dramático (Galician), dramatisch (German), דרמתי (dramati) (Hebrew), drámai (Hungarian), radicale (Italian), 劇的 (gekiteki) (Japanese), ドラマティック (doramatikku) (Japanese), 극적 (geukjeok) (alt: 劇的) (Korean), dramatisk (Norwegian Bokmål), dramatisk (Norwegian Nynorsk), dramático (Portuguese), assombroso (Portuguese), драмати́чный (dramatíčnyj) (Russian), asombroso (Spanish), dramatisk (Swedish), dramatik (Turkish), драмати́чний (dramatýčnyj) (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-dramatic-en-adj-aFG2fyY1 Disambiguation of Personality: 0 48 21 30 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 36 37 26 Disambiguation of 'striking in appearance or effect': 0 84 9 7
  3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice. Translations (having a powerful, expressive singing voice): դրամատիկական (dramatikakan) (Armenian), драматичен (dramatičen) (Bulgarian), dramaattinen (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-dramatic-en-adj-EvQboKf0 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 36 37 26 Disambiguation of 'having a powerful, expressive singing voice': 0 8 86 6
  4. (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention. Tags: informal
    Sense id: en-dramatic-en-adj-~RFQWY0N Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 36 37 26
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: dramatick Derived forms: dramatic beat, dramatic irony, dramatic present, dramatic structure, dramatic unity, dramatism, nondramatic

Alternative forms

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    {
      "word": "dramatism"
    },
    {
      "word": "nondramatic"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ja",
            "2": "-",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Japanese:",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ドラマティック"
          },
          "expansion": "ドラマティック (doramatikku)",
          "name": "ja-r"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Japanese: ドラマティック (doramatikku)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "grc",
        "3": "δραματικός"
      },
      "expansion": "Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "δρᾶμα",
        "3": "",
        "4": "drama, play"
      },
      "expansion": "δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "grc",
        "2": "δράω",
        "3": "",
        "4": "I do, accomplish"
      },
      "expansion": "δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more dramatic",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most dramatic",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Of or relating to the drama."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "drama",
          "drama"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 August 17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849",
          "text": "Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Striking in appearance or effect."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "appearance",
          "appearance"
        ],
        [
          "effect",
          "effect"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Having a powerful, expressive singing voice."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "powerful",
          "powerful"
        ],
        [
          "expressive",
          "expressive"
        ],
        [
          "singing",
          "singing"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English informal terms",
        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "exaggerate",
          "exaggerate"
        ],
        [
          "attention",
          "attention"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɹəˈmætɪk/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-dramatic.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-us-dramatic.ogg/En-us-dramatic.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-us-dramatic.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "dramatick"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dramatikakan",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "դրամատիկական"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dramatik",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "դրամատիկ"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dramatičen",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "драматичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramàtic"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "戲劇的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xìjù de",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "戏剧的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatický"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "draamallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramático"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "drámai"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "drammatico"
    },
    {
      "alt": "劇的",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geukjeok",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "극적"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatyczny"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramático"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dramatíčeskij",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "драмати́ческий"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramático"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "ti",
      "lang": "Tigrinya",
      "roman": "dəramawi",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "ድራማዊ"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "dramatik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dramatýčnyj",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "драмати́чний"
    },
    {
      "code": "yi",
      "lang": "Yiddish",
      "roman": "dramatish",
      "sense": "of or relating to the drama",
      "word": "דראַמאַטיש"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dramatikakan",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "դրամատիկական"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dramatičen",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "драматичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "戲劇性的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "xìjùxìng de",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "戏剧性的"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramaattinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "spectaculaire"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramático"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisch"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "dramati",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "דרמתי"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "drámai"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "radicale"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "gekiteki",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "劇的"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "doramatikku",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "ドラマティック"
    },
    {
      "alt": "劇的",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "geukjeok",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "극적"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramático"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "assombroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dramatíčnyj",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "драмати́чный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "asombroso"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatisk"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "dramatik"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "dramatýčnyj",
      "sense": "striking in appearance or effect",
      "word": "драмати́чний"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "dramatikakan",
      "sense": "having a powerful, expressive singing voice",
      "word": "դրամատիկական"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dramatičen",
      "sense": "having a powerful, expressive singing voice",
      "word": "драматичен"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "having a powerful, expressive singing voice",
      "word": "dramaattinen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dramatic"
}

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