dramatic

Adjective

dramatic (comparative more dramatic, superlative most dramatic)

1. Of or relating to the drama.
   • 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.1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
   • 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...1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 151
2. Striking in appearance or effect.
   • 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.1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430
3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
4. (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
   • You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!