Histrionic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Histrionic \His`tri*on"ic\, Histrionical \His`tri*on"ic*al\, a.
     [L. histrionicus: cf. F. histrionique. See {Histrion}.]
     1. Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a
        theatre; theatrical.
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     2. Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; -- sometimes
        used in a bad sense. -- {His`tri*on"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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              Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. --De
                                                    Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  histrionic
       adj : characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often
             affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of
             melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose" [syn: {melodramatic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "histrionic":
     actor-proof, affected, all-star, artificial, ballet, balletic,
     cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic,
     emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, hammy, hysteric,
     insincere, la-di-da, legitimate, maniere, mannered, melodramatic,
     milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted,
     overdone, overemotional, overplayed, pretentious, scenic,
     sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy,
     stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian,
     thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unnatural, unreasoning,
     vaudevillian