| 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: | theatrical piece; acting |
Synonyms: |
Broadway, boards, climax, comedy, dramatic art, dramatization, dramaturgy, farce, footlights, histrionic art, melodrama, play, production, scene, show, show business, showmanship, stage show, stagecraft, tear-jerker, theater, theatricals, thespian art, tragedy, vehicle* |
Antonyms: |
comedy |
| Main Entry: | melodramatics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatrics |
Synonyms: |
acting, dramatics, histrionics, stagecraft, theatrical |
| Main Entry: | staginess |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatricalism |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, theatricality, theatricalness, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatricalism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | showy behavior |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, staginess, theatricality, theatricalness, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatricality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatricalism |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, staginess, theatricalness, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatricalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | theatricalism |
Synonyms: |
acting, exhibitionism, histrionics, stagecraft, staginess, theatricality, theatrics |
| Main Entry: | theatrics |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | showy behavior |
Synonyms: |
acting, dramatics, histrionics, melodramatics, stagecraft, theatricality |
| Main Entry: | acting |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Roscian, balatronic, buskined, comic, cothurnal, dramatic, farcical, histrionic, melodramatic, operatic, scenic, stagey, thalian, theatric, theatrical, tragi, tragic
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