word-vault/dist/data/cards/dr/dramatic.json

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{
    "term": "dramatic",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "academic": true,
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "sudden, very great and often surprising",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a **dramatic increase/change/improvement/shift**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There has been a dramatic rise in reported crime."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dramatic decline/drop/fall/reduction in value"
                },
                {
                    "text": "The announcement had a **dramatic effect** on house prices."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Climate change will have a dramatic impact on the health of the planet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I need to see a dramatic improvement in your work."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There was a dramatic fall in profit margins."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "exciting and impressive",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a dramatic victory"
                },
                {
                    "text": "They watched dramatic pictures of the police raid on TV."
                },
                {
                    "text": "This scene lacked the **dramatic impact** that it should have had."
                },
                {
                    "text": "set against the dramatic backcloth of Mont Blanc"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There is superb dramatic tension in the silences."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the dramatic rescue of nine trapped coal miners"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There were dramatic scenes in the capital's central square."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "sound"],
                "adverb": ["extremely", "fairly", "very"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "connected with the theatre or plays",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a local dramatic society"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Students will study various plays and dramatic texts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a dramatic monologue"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She went on to study dramatic arts at Columbia University."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Film and theatre"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "exaggerated in order to create a special effect and attract people’s attention",
            "sensetop": "dramatic about something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "He flung out his arms in a dramatic gesture."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Don't be so dramatic!"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Must you be so dramatic about everything?",
                    "contextForm": "dramatic about something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I don't want to sound overly dramatic, but it changed my life."
                },
                {
                    "text": "I heard her yawn into the phone in a dramatic fashion like everything she did."
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/drəˈmætɪk/",
                "audio": "dr/dramatic/dramatic__gb_2.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/drəˈmætɪk/",
                "audio": "dr/dramatic/dramatic__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek dramatikos, from drama, dramat-, from dran ‘do, act’."
}