Sekirov Dictionary

theatrical

/θiːˈætɹɪkəl/

noun 3
adjective 2
forms 3

noun3

A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.
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A commercially produced film to be shown in movie theaters.
- Release schedules were stepped up so that virtually all of the summer theatricals are coming to video before year's end. — 2005
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A person who works in theatre.
- Both of her parents were theatricals — that is, the father played the violin and the mother attempted to dance but later she dropped the pretence. — 1945

adjective2

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Of or relating to the theatre.
- 12 July 2012, Sam Adams, AV Club Ice Age: Continental Drift The matter of whether the world needs a fourth Ice Age movie pales beside the question of why there were three before it, but Continental Drift feels less like an extension of a theatrical franchise than an episode of a middling TV cartoon, lolling around on territory that’s already been settled.
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Fake and exaggerated.
- The ceremony and its scene were characterised by that high sense of the theatrical which has marked the activities of the Third Reich. — 1941

forms

theatricals · more theatrical · most theatrical

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