|  drama 
  
 
 1. a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage (Freq. 12)
 - he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway
 • Syn:
 play, dramatic play
 • Derivationally related forms:
 dramatic, dramatist, dramatize, dramatise, playlet (for: play), play (for: play)
 • Hypernyms:
 dramatic composition, dramatic work
 • Hyponyms:
 Grand Guignol, theater of the absurd, playlet, miracle play, morality play,
 mystery play, Passion play, satyr play
 • Part Meronyms:
 stage direction, act
 2. an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional (Freq. 7)
 • Syn:
 dramatic event
 • Derivationally related forms:
 dramatic, dramatize, dramatise
 • Hypernyms:
 episode
 • Hyponyms:
 night terror
 3. the literary genre of works intended for the theater (Freq. 2)
 • Derivationally related forms:
 dramatic, dramatist, dramatize, dramatise
 • Members of this Topic:
 sympathetic, appealing, likeable, likable, unsympathetic,
 unappealing, unlikeable, unlikable, tragic, comic, tragicomic,
 warhorse, play, dramatic play, black humor, black humour
 • Hypernyms:
 writing style, literary genre, genre
 • Hyponyms:
 closet drama, comedy, tragedy
 4. the quality of being arresting or highly emotional (Freq. 1)
 • Derivationally related forms:
 dramatize, dramatise
 • Hypernyms:
 emotionality, emotionalism
 • Attrubites:
 dramatic, undramatic
 
 
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