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untheatrical

untheatrical adjective: not theatrical; mundane; not staged.

Adjective

untheatrical (comparative more untheatrical, superlative most untheatrical)

  1. Not theatrical; mundane; not staged.
    • Some people claim that Beckett's plays have grown more and more untheatrical. I believe the opposite is true1983, Charles R. Lyons, Samuel Beckett, page 13
    • Mr. Brown’s work is an odd mixture of theatrical and untheatrical — even antitheatrical — elements in other aspects too.2009 February 12, Alastair Macaulay, “Out of West Africa (via Brooklyn), From the Ground Up”, in New York Times

Forms of untheatrical

comparativemore untheatrical
superlativemost untheatrical

Origin of untheatrical

From un- + theatrical.

Words formed from untheatrical

Questions about untheatrical

What does untheatrical mean?
Untheatrical means not theatrical; mundane; not staged.
What part of speech is untheatrical?
Untheatrical is an adjective.

Words near untheatrical in the dictionary

  1. unthawable
  2. unthawed
  3. unthawing
  4. unthaws
  5. untheatric
  6. untheatrical
  7. untheatricality
  8. untheatricalized
  9. untheatrically
  10. untheistic
  11. unthematic

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