dramatic
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós), from δρᾶμᾰ (drâmă) + -τῐκός (-tĭkós).Category:English terms borrowed from Ancient Greek#DRAMATIC%7CDRAMATICCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#DRAMATICCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#DRAMATICCategory:English terms derived from Ancient Greek#DRAMATIC%7CDRAMATICCategory:English terms suffixed with -tic#DRAMATICCategory:English learned borrowings from Ancient Greek#DRAMATIC%7CDRAMATICCategory:Pages with etymology trees#DRAMATICCategory:English entries with etymology trees#DRAMATICCategory:English entries with etymology texts#DRAMATICCategory:Pages using etymon with no ID#DRAMATIC By surface analysis, drama + -ticCategory:English terms suffixed with -tic#DRAMATIC.
Pronunciation
Adjective
dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)Category:English lemmas#DRAMATICCategory:English adjectives#DRAMATICCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DRAMATICCategory:Pages with entries#DRAMATICCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DRAMATIC
- Of or relating to the drama.
- 1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#DRAMATIC
- Striking in appearance or effect.
- 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#DRAMATIC
- 2013 August 17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849:
- Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.Category:English terms with quotations#DRAMATIC
- 2025 March 13, Kaanita Iyer, “Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding”, in edition.cnn.com:
- 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.”Category:English terms with quotations#DRAMATIC
- Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
- (informalCategory:English informal terms#DRAMATIC) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
- You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!Category:English terms with usage examples#DRAMATIC
Derived terms
- antidramatic
- cyberdramatic
- dramastic
- dramatically
- dramatic beat
- dramatic irony
- dramaticism
- dramaticity
- dramatic license
- dramaticness
- Dramatic Prakrit
- dramatic present
- dramatic soprano
- dramatic structure
- dramaticule
- dramatic unity
- dramatism
- hyperdramatic
- metadramatic
- microdramatic
- monodramatic
- musicodramatic
- nondramatic
- overdramatic
- photodramatic
- postdramatic
- protodramatic
- pseudodramatic
- psychodramatic
- semidramatic
- sociodramatic
- superdramatic
- teledramatic
- theodramatic
- underdramatic
- undramatic
Descendants
- → Japanese: ドラマティック (doramatikku)Category:Japanese links with redundant alt parameters#DRAMATIC
Translations
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Further reading
- Raymond Williams (1983), “Dramatic”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 109.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from FrenchCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from French#DRAMATICCategory:Romanian terms derived from French#DRAMATIC dramatique, from LatinCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#DRAMATIC dramaticus. Equivalent to dramă + -aticCategory:Romanian terms suffixed with -atic#DRAMATIC.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /draˈma.tik/Category:Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation#DRAMATIC
Adjective
dramatic m or n (feminine singular dramatică, masculine plural dramatici, feminine/neuter plural dramatice)Category:Romanian lemmas#DRAMATICCategory:Romanian adjectives#DRAMATICCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#DRAMATICCategory:Pages with entries#DRAMATICCategory:Pages with 2 entries#DRAMATIC
Declension
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative | indefinite | dramatic | dramatică | dramatici | dramatice | ||
| definite | dramaticul | dramatica | dramaticii | dramaticele | |||
| genitive- dative | indefinite | dramatic | dramatice | dramatici | dramatice | ||
| definite | dramaticului | dramaticei | dramaticilor | dramaticelor | |||
Further reading
- “dramatic”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026