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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
histrionic
    adj 1: characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often
           affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of
           melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose" [syn:
           histrionic, melodramatic]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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. -- His`tri*on"ic*al*ly, adv.
      [1913 Webster]

            Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. --De
                                                  Quincey.
      [1913 Webster]

Thesaurus Results for histrionic:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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