| Main Entry: | melodramatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extravagant in speech, behavior |
Synonyms: |
artificial, blood-and-thunder, cliff-hanging, cloak-and-dagger, exaggerated, ham, hammy, histrionic, hokey, overdramatic, overemotional, sensational, spectacular, stagy, theatrical |
Antonyms: |
calm, normal, untheatrical |
| Main Entry: | precious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely sophisticated and picky |
Synonyms: |
affected, alembicated, artful, artificial, chichi*, choosy, dainty, delicate, fastidious, finicky, fragile, fussy, la-di-da, nice, ostentatious, overnice, overrefined, particular, persnickety*, precieux, pretentious, refined, showy, stagy, studied |
Antonyms: |
defective, deficient, impaired |
| Main Entry: | sophisticated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | cosmopolitan, cultured |
Synonyms: |
adult, artificial, been around, blasé, bored, citified, cool*, couth, cultivated, cynical, disenchanted, disillusioned, experienced, in, in the know, into*, jaded, jet-set, knowing, laid-back*, mature, mondaine, on to, practical, practiced, refined, schooled, seasoned, sharp, skeptical, smooth, stagy, streetwise, studied, suave, svelte, switched on, uptown, urbane, well-bred, wise to, wised up, with it, world-weary, worldly, worldly wise |
Antonyms: |
naive, uncultivated, uncultured, unrefined, unsophisticated |
| Main Entry: | oratorical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | rhetorical |
Synonyms: |
bombastic, declamatory, dramatic, elaborate, elocutionary, eloquent, expressive, fervid, forceful, gesticulative, gesturing, grandiloquent, histrionic, impassioned, important, imposing, inflated, intoning, lofty, long-winded, loud, noble, noisy, orotund, ostentatious, persuasive, pompous, senatorial, stagy, stentorian, stylistic, theatrical, tumid, verbose, vivid |
Antonyms: |
natural, simple, undramatic |