Dramatic vs Escalate - What's the difference?
dramatic | escalate |
Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up
in technical support, to transfer a telephone caller to the next higher level of authority
As an adjective dramatic
is dramatic.As a verb escalate is
to increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up.dramatic
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Alternative forms
* dramatickAdjective
(en adjective)Best and brightest, passage=Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. }}
Derived terms
* nondramaticescalate
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Verb
(transitive'' and ''intransitive )- Violence escalated during the election.
- The shooting escalated the existing hostility.
- The tech 1 escalated the caller to a tech 2.
