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Dramatic vs Fighting - What's the difference?

dramatic | fighting |

As adjectives the difference between dramatic and fighting

is that dramatic is dramatic while fighting is engaged in war or other conflict.

As a verb fighting is

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As a noun fighting is

a fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight.

dramatic

English

Alternative forms

* dramatick

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or relating to the drama.
  • *
  • Striking in appearance or effect.
  • *
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-17, volume=408, issue=8849, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= 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. }}
  • Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.

    • Derived terms

    * nondramatic

    fighting

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Derived terms

    * fighting chance

    Adjective

    (head)
  • Engaged in war or other conflict.
  • Apt to provoke a fight.
  • * 1925 April 11, "Books", in , page 26:
    • It seems like a fighting insult, but he explains.
  • * 1947 , (film):
    • Them's fighting words in my country!
  • * 2003 , Marjorie Kelly, The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy , Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ISBN 1576752372, page xi:
    • Those are fighting words, of course, and the people who presently hold the high ground of economic power in society will not be amused.

    Derived terms

    * fighting words

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A fight or battle; an occasion on which people fight
  • * {{quote-book, year=1613, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=The Costlie Whore, edition= citation
    • , passage=Then here the warres end, here[206] our fightings marde, Yet by your leave Ile stand upon my Guard. '' }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1840, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Seid had fallen in the War of Tabuc, the first of Mahomet's fightings with the Greeks. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1860, author=John Yeardley, title=Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=A good many soldiers, and some officers, were present; but the expression of our dissent from all wars and fightings had not displeased them, for they shook hands with US most kindly. }}

    Descendants

    * Korean: (hwaiting)