histrionic in English

adjective

1

overly theatrical or melodramatic in character or style.

a histrionic outburst

synonyms: melodramatic, theatrical, dramatic, exaggerated, stagy, actorly, showy, affected, artificial, overacted, overdone, hammy, ham, campy

noun

1

exaggerated dramatic behavior designed to attract attention.

discussions around the issue have been based as much in histrionics as in history

2

an actor.

adjective

• melodramatic, theatrical, dramatic, exaggerated, stagy, actorly, showy, affected, artificial, overacted, overdone, hammy, ham, campy
• melodramatic

Use "histrionic" in a sentence

1. Dorothea let out a histrionic groan.

2. She put on a histrionic display of grief at her ex-husband's funeral.

3. She has a rather histrionic outlook on life sometimes.

4. The improvement of parents'breeding model can prevent histrionic personality disorder.

5. Her Captivating beauty and histrionic talent add to her persona

6. Garbo's natural manner distinguished her from more histrionic silent actors.

7. She had never forgotten her one histrionic achievement in Chicago.

8. The core symptom of histrionic personality disorder is attracting other's attention.

9. Fortune or misfortune, I feel this world is full of histrionic.

10. Affected: See: bogus , formal , grandiose , histrionic , inclined , interested , orgulous , orotund , pretentious , proud , specious , tartuffish

11. He enunciated, quietly, but in something like his usual modulated and faintly histrionic tone.

12. The gait may be histrionic with the degree of dysfunction varying in different situations.

13. Synonyms for Actressy include theatrical, melodramatic, exaggerated, histrionic, stagy, affected, artificial, mannered, ostentatious and showy

14. They include Antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder

15. Yet the 20-year-old at the centre of the histrionic hype is impervious to it all.

16. To perform higher actions, to serve the imagination with special distinction, it seems essential to be histrionic.

17. The differences hence impose a change in representation. In this article, I analyze the narrative structure, stage design, and histrionic formula of The Golden Cangue.

18. No genetic effects were found on Histrionic, but common environmental effect accounted for 08%( 50- of the total variances.

19. But while the histrionic is overly-emotional, invested in intimacy, and self-dramatizing ("drama queen"), the somatic narcissist and the psychopath are cold and calculating.

20. Glenn Close delivers, Her Norma is way over the top, with hugely theatrical gestures, histrionic line readings, and the cunning of a she-wolf.

21. 21 But while the histrionic is overly-emotional, invested in intimacy, and self-dramatizing ("drama queen"), the somatic narcissist and the psychopath are cold and calculating.

22. The scale is appreciable but the detail is rotten: Theodore Roberts plays a terrifically hollow version of the meek prophet, morphing the introspective interlocutor into a histrionic Blitherer