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.
[1913 Webster]
2. Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; -- sometimes
used in a bad sense. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
histrionic
adj : characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often
affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of
melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose" [syn: melodramatic]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
melodramatic
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