dramatically

dramatically

English

Etymology

dramatic +‎ -ally

Pronunciation

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Adverb

dramatically (comparative more dramatically, superlative most dramatically)

1. In a dramatic manner.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery‎:

     “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […] ”

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎:

     But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

Translations

in a dramatic manner

Catalan: dramàticament (ca) Finnish: dramaattisesti (fi), draamallisesti Italian: drammaticamente (it), sensazionalmente, chiaramente (it), enormemente (it), decisamente (it), drasticamente (it) Polish: dramatycznie Portuguese: dramaticamente Romanian: dramatic (ro) Spanish: dramáticamente (es) Swedish: dramatiskt (sv)

See also

• significantly
• drastically
• strikingly

Further reading

• dramatically in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• dramatically in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911