Dramatic
Dramatic adjective - Having the general quality or effect of a stage performance.
Usage example: the basketball player's dramatic announcement of his sudden retirement held everybody spellbound
Hammy is a synonym for dramatic. In some cases you can use "Hammy" instead an adjective "Dramatic". informal substitute
Hammy
Hammy adjective - Given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting.
Usage example: a hammy singer whose overwrought renditions of love songs just beg listeners to cry
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- showy and dramatic
- showy and hammy
- affected and dramatic
- affected and hammy
- artificial and dramatic
- artificial and hammy
- ostentatious and dramatic
- ostentatious and hammy
- sensational and dramatic
- sensational and hammy
- tragic and dramatic
- tragic and hammy
- spectacular and dramatic
- spectacular and hammy
Both words in one sentence
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Sims may not have dramatic pronunciations, but they are far more hammy than the average human being they're supposed to simulate.
Source: Large Ham / Video Games -
For every action scene, there's at least two scenes of the same length of nothing but dialogue... hammy, dramatic dialogue.
Source: Speech-Centric Work -
This is, in fact, a subversion, since while he was throwing dramatic speeches and one-liners around and being so hammy as possible, Paula and Jeff were ignoring him completely.
Source: Webcomic / The Chosen Four
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Hammy and Dramatic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/hammy
Dramatic & Hammy. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/hammy>.
Hammy or Dramatic. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/hammy.
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