histrionic

Speech parts

1. histrionic - Adjective

2. histrionic - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Alt. of Histrionical

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

melodramatic dramatic emotional theatrical exaggerated operatic flamboyant grandiose showy overemotional stagy actorish overacting overdramatic ham
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Antonyms

natural real normal stoic phlegmatic actual
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Related terms

histrion histrionize histrionism

Phrases with the word

histrionic art histrionic schizophrenia less histrionic histrionic psychosis

Examples

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. William Dean Howells

Leftist reactions are always histrionic. Dave Sim

... Mani Madhava Chakyar, the overarching titan of 20th-century Koodiyattam, whose histrionic powers and focused scholarship eventually gave his art world-wide audience (and a Unesco recognition)" - "The New Indian Express (2011) Mani Madhava Chakyar

I always want to bring emotion across in a straightforward way. I don't want to get histrionic when I'm singing. For me that's just not interesting; it goes too far down one road. Dido Armstrong

A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true. Eddie Redmayne

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Close letter words and terms

histozyme histrelin histrion histrionic art histrionic personality disorder histrionic psychosis