operatic

Relating to or characteristic of an opera or opera singers; often used to describe a dramatic or exaggerated style.

• 🇫🇷Relatif à l'opéra ou aux chanteurs d'opéra, ou qui en a le caractère ; souvent utilisé pour décrire un style dramatique, exagéré ou grandiloquent.

1. Relating to opera B2 formal

   Of, relating to, or characteristic of the art form of opera.

   • She has a powerful, operatic voice.
   • The performance was full of operatic drama.
   • He studied operatic traditions in Italy.

   🇫🇷Relatif à l'opéra

2. Dramatic or exaggerated B2 informal

   Resembling the dramatic, emotional, or exaggerated style of an opera.

   • His reaction was completely operatic, with lots of hand-waving.
   • The argument turned operatic, with everyone shouting.
   • She made an operatic entrance into the room.

   🇫🇷Théâtral, exagéré

   Synonymes: dramaticexaggeratedhammyhistrionicmelodramaticover-the-toptheatrical

   Antonymes: mutedrestrainedsubtleunderstatedunemotional

• more operatic comparative form
• most operatic superlative form