Theatrical vs Dramatic - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to the theatre.
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Fake and exaggerated.
Of or relating to the drama.
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Striking in appearance or effect.
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As adjectives the difference between theatrical and dramatic
is that theatrical is of or relating to the theatre while dramatic is of or relating to the drama.As a noun theatrical
is a stage performance, especially one by amateurs.theatrical
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
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. }}