dramatic

English

Alternative forms

• dramatick

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikos), from δρᾶμα (drama, “drama, play”), from δράω (draō, “I do, accomplish”).

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Adjective

dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

Derived terms

• nondramatic

Translations

of or relating to the drama

• Bulgarian: драматичен (bg) (dramatičen)
• Czech: dramatický (cs) m
• Finnish: draamallinen (fi)
• French: dramatique (fr) m and f

• German: dramatisch (de)
• Hungarian: drámai (hu)
• Polish: dramatyczny m
• Spanish: dramático (es) m

striking in appearance or effect

• Bulgarian: драматичен (bg) (dramatičen)
• Finnish: dramaattinen (fi)
• French: spectaculaire (fr) m and f, dramatique (fr) m and f
• German: dramatisch (de)
• Hebrew: דרמתי (dramati)

• Hungarian: drámai (hu)
• Japanese: 劇的 (ja) (gekiteki)
• Spanish: asombroso (es) m
• Swedish: dramatisk (sv)

having a powerful, expressive singing voice

• Bulgarian: драматичен (bg) (dramatičen)

• Finnish: dramaattinen (fi)

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Romanian

Adjective

dramatic ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. dramatic

Declension

declension of dramatic

		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