Stagy

3 definitions found

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

  Stagy \Sta"gy\ (st[=a]"j[y^]), a. [Written also {stagey}.]
     Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage;
     theatrical; artificial; as, a stagy tone or bearing; --
     chiefly used depreciatively.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  stagy
       adj : having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial
             and mannered quality; "stagy heroics" [syn: {stagey}]
       [also: {stagiest}, {stagier}]

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

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