| Main Entry: | dramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
acting, drama, dramaturgy, histrionics, stage, theater, theatre |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, performing |
Synonyms: |
assuming, characterization, depiction, dramatics, dramatizing, enacting, enactment, feigning, hamming, histrionics, imitating, imitation, impersonation, improvisation, mime, mimicry, pantomime, performance, play acting, playing, portrayal, portraying, posing, posturing, pretending, pretense, putting, rendition, seeming, showing off, simulating, stagecraft, stooging, theatre, theatricals |
| Main Entry: | drama |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | turmoil in real life |
Synonyms: |
climax, comedy, crisis, dramatics, emotion, excitement, farce, histrionics, melodrama, scene, spectacle, tension, theatrics, tragedy |
| Main Entry: | dramatization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drama |
Synonyms: |
dramatics, entertainment, melodrama |
| Main Entry: | elocution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | articulation |
Synonyms: |
declamation, delivery, diction, dramatic, eloquence, enunciation, expression, locution, oratory, pronunciation, public speaking, reading, rhetoric, speech, speechcraft, speechmaking, utterance, voice culture, voice production |
Antonyms: |
inarticulation, mispronouncement |
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
Synonyms: |
ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
Antonyms: |
dullness, inarticulateness |
| Main Entry: | histrionics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
dramatics, dramatization, performance, performing |
| Notes: | histrionics is a deliberate display of emotion for effect; hysterics is a fit of uncontrollable laughing or crying or frantic emotional behavior |
| Main Entry: | theatre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | business of plays |
Synonyms: |
drama, dramatics, dramaturgy, footlights, histrionics, histrionism, theater, theatrics, troupe |
| Main Entry: | melodramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
acting, dramatics, histrionics, stagecraft, theatrical |
| Main Entry: | theatrics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | showy behavior |
Synonyms: |
acting, dramatics, histrionics, melodramatics, stagecraft, theatricality |