different between histrionic vs histrionical
histrionic
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin histri?nicus (“pertaining to acting; scurrilous, shameful; wretched”), from Latin histri?nicus (“pertaining to acting and the theatre”), from histri? (“actor, player”) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). Morphologically, the word may be surface analysed as histrion +? -ic.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h?st?i???n?k/
- (General American) IPA(key): /h?st?i??n?k/
- Rhymes: -?n?k
- Hyphenation: his?tri?on?ic
Adjective
histrionic (comparative more histrionic, superlative most histrionic)
- Of or relating to actors or acting.
- Synonyms: actorish, actressy, dramatic, theatrical
- (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.
- Synonyms: melodramatic, overdramatic, sensationalized, stagy
Alternative forms
- histrionick (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
- histrion (obsolete)
- histrionism
- histrionize (rare)
Translations
References
Further reading
- histrionic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Romanian
Etymology
From French histrionique.
Adjective
histrionic m or n (feminine singular histrionic?, masculine plural histrionici, feminine and neuter plural histrionice)
- histrionic
Declension
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histrionical
English
Adjective
histrionical (comparative more histrionical, superlative most histrionical)
- (Britain) Alternative form of histrionic
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