Dramatic
[drə'mætɪk]
Definition
(adj.) suitable to or characteristic of drama; 'a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape'; 'a dramatic rescue at sea' .
(adj.) sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect; 'a dramatic sunset'; 'a dramatic pause'; 'a spectacular display of northern lights'; 'it was a spectacular play'; 'his striking good looks always created a sensation' .
(adj.) used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style; 'a dramatic tenor'; 'a dramatic soprano' .
(adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of drama; 'dramatic arts' .
Editor: Zeke--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Dramatical
Typed by Garrett
Examples
- And we have nothing more dramatic, nervous, natural! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Nowhere in Plato is there a deeper irony or a greater wealth of humour or imagery, or more dramatic power. Plato. The Republic.
- I have given you a serious shock by my unnecessarily dramatic reappearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Sherlock Holmes's prophecy was soon fulfilled, and in a dramatic fashion. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- She flushed, not with anger but excitement, when the ungenial matron answered coolly, Don't waste your dramatic effects. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He expected something dramatic and demonstrative. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- By the present audience of two persons, no dramatic heroine could have been expected with more interest than Mrs. Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This is more interesting than it promised to be; quite dramatic, in fact. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- On the Fourth of August it achieved a great dramatic success. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A murder--a most dramatic and remarkable murder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- This Exposition brings us, indeed, to a dramatic and rather pathetic parting of the ways. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- But the feeling of the times was all in favour of outcries, dramatic interruptions, and such-like manifestations of Natural Virtue. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Dramatic and lyric poetry, like every other branch of Greek literature, was falling under the power of rhetoric. Plato. The Republic.
- He is gifted with far greater dramatic invention than any one who succeeded him, with the exception of Swift. Plato. The Republic.
- With dramatic suddenness he struck a match, and by its light exposed a stain of blood upon the whitewashed wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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