histrionic

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /hɪstɹiːˈɒnɪk/    美 /ˌhɪs.triˈɑ.nɪk/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or relating to actors or acting.
    — After three years of constant applause, Miss [Elizabeth] O'Neill directed her steps towards the summit of histrionick exertion, being engaged for the season of 1814 at Covent Garden, where she made her first entrée as Juliet, on the 6th of October, being at once recognised as the first Hibernian actress, who had joined transcendant beauty with rare histrionick talent, since the time of Mrs. [Peg] Woffington.
  2. Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention. broadly
    — [F]oppiſh airs / And hiſtrionic mumm'ry, that let down / The pulpit to the level of the ſtage, / Drops from the lips a diſregarded thing.

词形变化

more histrionic comparative most histrionic superlative histrionick alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
herstrionic histrionical histrionically histrionicism histrionicity histrionic personality disorder histrionics testrionics unhistrionic
相关词
histrion histrionism histrionize

词源

Borrowed from Late Latin histriōnicus (“pertaining to acting; scurrilous, shameful; wretched”), from Latin histriōnicus (“pertaining to acting and the theatre”), from histriō (“actor, player”) + -icus (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’). By surface analysis, histrion + -ic.
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