dramatic
/dɹəˈmætɪk/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.41 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord."
- "The Orestea is in effect one great single tragedy in three separate parts, each with its own dramatic purpose, yet harmonized by a common inspiration—three great acts of a drama, simple but complex; the whole, as its component members, showing unity of action in rise, crisis, and fall, and progressing in a series of like orderly stages toward a definite dramatic goal."
- "a dramatic view of the Alps"
- "Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family."
- "Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade."
- "Johns Hopkins laying off more than 2,000 workers after dramatic cut in USAID funding […] Daniels warned in the message that the dramatic cut in USAID funding will result in “impacts to budgets, personnel, and programs.”"
Etymology
Etymology tree Ancient Greek δράω (dráō) Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Hellenic *-mə Ancient Greek -μᾰ (-mă) Ancient Greek δρᾶμα (drâma) Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Hellenic *-tis Ancient Greek -τῐς (-tĭs) Ancient Greek -σῐς (-sĭs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Proto-Hellenic *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τος (-tos) ▲ Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) ? Ancient Greek -τικός (-tikós) Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός (drāmătĭkós)bor. Latin drāmaticuslbor. English dramatic Learned borrowing from Latin drāmaticus. By surface analysis, drama + -tic.