dramatic — Englisches Wörterbuch

Adjektiv

1. Of or relating to the drama.

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   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.

2. Striking in appearance or effect.

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   a dramatic view of the Alps

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   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.

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   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.”

3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

4. Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.

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

Adjektiv

1. suitable to or characteristic of drama

   Antonyme

   undramatic

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   a dramatic entrance in a swirling cape

   a dramatic rescue at sea

2. sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect

   Synonyme

   spectacularstriking

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   a dramatic sunset

   a dramatic pause

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   a spectacular display of northern lights

   it was a spectacular play

   his striking good looks always created a sensation

3. pertaining to or characteristic of drama

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   dramatic arts

4. used of a singer or singing voice that is marked by power and expressiveness and a histrionic or theatrical style

   Antonyme

   lyric

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   a dramatic tenor

   a dramatic soprano