operatic
adjUK /ˌɒp.əˈɹæt.ɪk/ · US /ˌɑ.pɚˈæt.ɪk/
Etymology From opera + -ic, probably influenced by dramatic.
1
Of, related to, or typical of opera.
- The politician's address was so flamboyant as to be operatic.
- She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also wallowingly sorry for herself, Diantha climbed off the bed and sat down at the desk to write Charles some operatic note of farewell.2009, Jane Pattison, Charles and Diantha, page 327:
- Derived terms
- horse-operatic, nonoperatic, operatically, operatic soprano, poperatic, semioperatic, soap-operatic, soap operatic, space-operatic, unoperatic