histrionic

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histrionic — 形容詞

  • histrionicpositive
  • more histrioniccomparative
  • most histrionicsuperlative

1. showing strong feelings in a loud, exaggerated way that seems put on for effect

1.形容詞C2
釋義

做作的；浮誇

情緒表現誇張且不真誠的

showing strong feelings in a loud, exaggerated way that seems put on for effect rather than truly felt.

例句

Emre threw a histrionic fit when the waiter brought him the wrong coffee.

服務生送錯咖啡時，Emre 做作地大發脾氣。

predicative-attributive: histrionic + noun (fit, outburst, display)

The senator's histrionic apology on television fooled almost nobody at home.

那位參議員在電視上浮誇的道歉，幾乎沒能騙過家中觀眾。

common collocation: histrionic apology / speech / performance

常見搭配
  • histrionic display
  • histrionic outburst
  • histrionic performance
  • histrionic gesture
同義詞
  • melodramatic

    very close in meaning; suggests exaggerated emotion borrowed from a soap opera

  • theatrical

    less negative; can describe a deliberately showy style without implying insincerity

  • overwrought

    stresses being too worked-up emotionally rather than performing for an audience

反義詞

用法筆記

Almost always negative. Subject is usually a person's behaviour, speech, or performance — a histrionic person is one whose displays of feeling are not trusted as real.

常見錯誤

She gave a histrionic smile to her friend.
She gave a histrionic display of grief at the funeral.
'histrionic' describes loud, theatrical emotion (anger, grief, joy), not quiet expressions like a smile.

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