histrionic

histrionic
    adj 1: characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often
           affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of
           melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose" [syn:
           {histrionic}, {melodramatic}]
    

Histrionic \His`tri*on"ic\, Histrionical \His`tri*on"ic*al\, a.
   [L. histrionicus: cf. F. histrionique. See {Histrion}.]
   1. Of or relating to the stage or a stageplayer; befitting a
      theatre; theatrical.
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   2. Affectedly dramatic; insincerely emotional; -- sometimes
      used in a bad sense. -- {His`tri*on"ic*al*ly}, adv.
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            Tainted with false and histrionic feeling. --De
                                                  Quincey.
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52 Moby Thesaurus words for "histrionic":
      actor-proof, affected, all-star, artificial, ballet, balletic,
      cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic,
      emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, hammy, hysteric,
      insincere, la-di-da, legitimate, maniere, mannered, melodramatic,
      milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted,
      overdone, overemotional, overplayed, pretentious, scenic,
      sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy,
      stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian,
      thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unnatural, unreasoning,
      vaudevillian