dramatical
Pertaining to theater
Dramatical is an archaic or humorous variant of dramatic.
It appears occasionally in older texts and modern usage that aims for a playful, exaggerated tone: She made a dramatical exit, slamming every door on the way out.
The standard form is dramatic.
Raised performance platform
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- performanceCarrying out a task
- costumeClothing for portrayal
- rehearsalPre-performance practice session
audience · monologue · dialogue · script · director · curtain · troupe · backstage
Inflated beyond reasonable proportion
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- sensationalArousing intense excitement
- flamboyantStrikingly bold in style
ostentatious · grandiose · bombastic · theatrical · hammy · campy · over-the-top · affected
Elaborately decorated
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
- elaborateComplex and detailed
grandiloquent · extravagant · declamatory · rhetorical · expressive · mannered · heightened · stylistic
Pity-evoking quality
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- tearjerkerEmotionally manipulative entertainment
- touchingEvoking gentle emotion
bittersweet · wistful · sentimental · mawkish · lachrymose · overwrought · sappy · affecting
stage
Raised performance platform
- playwrightAuthor of stage dramas
- performanceCarrying out a task
- costumeClothing for portrayal
rehearsal · audience · monologue · dialogue · script · director · curtain · troupe · backstage · proscenium
overblown
Inflated beyond reasonable proportion
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
- overwroughtExcessively emotional or elaborate
- sensationalArousing intense excitement
flamboyant · ostentatious · grandiose · bombastic · theatrical · hammy · campy · over-the-top · affected · showy
ornate
Elaborately decorated
- floridExcessively ornate or ruddy
- baroqueExcessively ornate or elaborate
- embellishedDecorated or exaggerated
elaborate · grandiloquent · extravagant · declamatory · rhetorical · expressive · mannered · heightened · stylistic · artifice
pathos
Pity-evoking quality
- poignantEvoking keen emotion
- heartrendingCausing overwhelming grief
- tearjerkerEmotionally manipulative entertainment
touching · bittersweet · wistful · sentimental · mawkish · lachrymose · overwrought · sappy · affecting · moving
dramaticalunderstated
Deliberately minimized in expression
subdued · restrained · muted · low-key · unemotional
dramaticalprosaic
Lacking imagination or excitement
undramatic · untheatrical · plain · ordinary · mundane
dramaticalprosaic
Lacking imagination or excitement
undramatic · lyrical · narrative · epic · novelistic
- dramatic effectHeightened emotional impact
- dramatic characterFictional person performed
- dramatic pauseIntentional silence for emphasis
- dramatic monologuePoem as character's speech
- dramatic languageExaggerated or emotional wording
- dramatic themesCentral ideas in theater
dramatic, melodramatic, dramatically, dramatics, undramatic, melodramatically, melodramatics, nondramatic