theatrical

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/θiːˈætɹɪkəl/    /θiˈætɹɪkəl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A stage performance, especially one by amateurs.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
形容词 adj.
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

词形变化

more theatrical comparative most theatrical superlative theatricals plural

词源

词源 1
From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.
词源 2
From Latin theātricus + -al. By surface analysis, theatre + -ical.
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