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Synonyms:
- ersatz, showy, debut, interpretive, bogus, fraudulent, false, forged, imposture, guest, unnatural, mock, ostentatious, overdone, impersonating, mannered, melodramatic, bankable, forced, imitation, studied, all-star, deceitful, histrionic, thespian, operatic, artificial, stiff, stagey, facade, masquerading, affected, synthetic, pretentious, stilted, theatrical, la-di-da, interpretative, posing, counterfeit, off-screen, live, dramatic, evergreen, fake, hammy
Examples:
- - The monologue must not be stagy. - "Browning and the Dramatic Monologue", S. S. Curry
- - Maskelyne and Devant are satisfied with a stage- setting which is frankly only a stage- setting- as stagy, in fact, as the ordinary scenery to be seen in a variety- show. - "A Book About the Theater", Brander Matthews
- - It is true that, thanks to the ineptitude of his immediate antagonists, he recovers himself not ill by cleverly selecting the respectable Hermann and Dorothea, the stagy- romantic Childe Harold, the creature called " Jocelyn," and the shadowy or scrappy personages of the Excursion, to match against his four. - "Matthew Arnold", George Saintsbury
Antonyms:
- matter-of-fact, unrewarding, untheatrical, stale, monotonous, quiet, simple, uneventful, unexceptional, unspectacular, restrained, undramatic, uninspiring, unsensational, common, toned, subdued, nondramatic, ordinary, unaffected, discreet, conservative, unexciting, muted, inconspicuous, commonplace, modest, underplayed, unpretentious, plain
