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
Operatic and dramatic are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Operatic" instead an adjective "Dramatic".
Operatic
Operatic adjective - Having the general quality or effect of a stage performance.
Usage example: the fall of the scandal-ridden government seemed operatic in its scope and consequences
Dramatic and operatic are semantically related. You can use "Dramatic" instead an adjective "Operatic".
Nearby Word: opera
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- emotional and dramatic
- emotional and operatic
- showy and dramatic
- showy and operatic
- affected and dramatic
- affected and operatic
- expressive and dramatic
- expressive and operatic
- artificial and dramatic
- artificial and operatic
- ostentatious and dramatic
- ostentatious and operatic
- tragic and dramatic
- tragic and operatic
Both words in one sentence
- Bandleader Peter Hammill has since remarked that its "operatic and dramatic" music "chimed with the scene in Italy at the time".
- Taken Up to Eleven by Roy Orbison who wrote and performed dramatic and operatic Love Songs.
Source: Silly Love Songs -
The scene with Law and Ki trashing Brian and Ted's room is not only overly dramatic, but set to operatic music.
Cite this Source
Operatic and Dramatic. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 12, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/operatic
Dramatic & Operatic. N.p., 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/operatic>.
Operatic or Dramatic. 2016. Accessed August 12, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dramatic/operatic.
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