Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Histrionic |
HistrionicAdjective1. Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected; "histrionic gestures"; "an attitude of melodramatic despair"; "a theatrical pose". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "histrionic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Histrionic is from the Etruscan word hister (a dancer), histriones (ballet-dancers). Hence, histrio in Latin means a stage-player, and our word histrionic, pertaining to the drama. History is quite another word, being the Greek historia, histor, a judge, allied to histamai, to know. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: HistrionicSynonym: melodramatic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
The Drama | Noun: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis. |
Adjective: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Histrionic |
| English words defined with "histrionic": dramatic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "histrionic": Dock-side Lumper ♦ Histrionic Personality Disorder. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
Books |
|
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Histrionic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Histrionic" is used about 41 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 41 | 53,521 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "histrionic": histrionic art ♦ Histrionic Personality Disorder. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
histrionic personality disorder | 133 |
histrionic | 53 |
histrionic personality | 32 |
disorder histrionic | 11 |
behavior histrionic | 3 |
cause disorder histrionic personality | 3 |
disorder histrionic personality treatment | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "histrionic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مسرحى, تمثيلي (representative, scenic, scenical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сценичен (acting, playable, presentable, scenic, theatrical), театрален (dramatic, scenic, stagy, theatrical), актьорски, превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, snobbish, stuffy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | teatrální (camp, stagy, theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | haemorrhagia histrionica (histrionic haemorrhage), bloedning ved Muenchhausens syndrom (histrionic haemorrhage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | théâtral, prétentieux (highfalutin). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | theatralisch (stagy, theatric, theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποκριτικόσ (hypocritical, simulative, smarmy), θεατρικόσ (scenic, stagy, theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תאטרלי (dramatic, theatrical), בימתי (stagey, theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | színpadi (alarums and excursions, scenic, scenical, theatrical), színházi (theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | istrionico. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | istrionichay histriônico, o resto é história. (various references) teatral (affected, dramatic, scenic, spectacular, stagy, theatrical, theatrically), prefãcut (affected, assumed, cattish, false, falsified, forged, guileful, hollow-hearted, hypocritical, insidious, mock, panting, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pretender, seeming, sham, squeamish, treacherous), ipocrit (cant, canter, canting, dissembler, double-dealer, double-dealing-faced, fairfaced, false, feigner, hollow, hypocrite, hypocritical, pecksniffian, pharisaical, pharisee, pietist, squeamish, Tartuffe), cabotinism (attitudinizing, cabotinage, histrionics), artã teatralã, actoricesc (actor's, theatrical). (various references) театральный (scenic, scenical, stagey, stagy, theatrical). (various references) izveštačen (affected, artificial, coy, finical, mincing), glumački (acting). (various references) histriónico. (various references) teatralisk (flamboyant, operatic, stagy, theatrical), teater- (scenic, scenical, theatrical). (various references) แส"งท่าทางเกินจริง (histrionical), เกี่ยวกับผู้แส"งหรือการแส"ง (histrionical). (various references) tiyatroya ait (dramatic, theatrical, thespian), oyunculuğa ait, aşırı duygusal (gooey, impressible, impressionable, mushy, over-sensitive, schmaltzy, slobbery, slushy, soppy, supersensitive, syrupy, treacly). (various references) сценічний (scenic, stage, theatrical), театральний (dramatic, melodramatic, scenic, spectacular, stagey, stagy, theatral, theatrical), награний (scenic, scenical), акторський, актор (actor, artist, artiste, player), лицемірний (cant, canting, double dealing, double-tongued, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuit, left handed, self-righteous, specious). (various references) có vẻ đóng kịch (theatrical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "histrionic": histrionically, histrionics. (additional references) | |
| |
"Histrionic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: airtronic, historionic, histrianic, histrio, histrioic, histronic, hystrionic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "histrionic" (pronounced hi'strēÄ"nik) |
| 6 | -r ē Ä" n i k | embryonic. |
| 5 | -ē Ä" n i k | avionic, ganglionic, nucleonic. |
| 4 | -Ä" n i k | allophonic, bubonic, catatonic, chronic, conic, demonic, diatonic, electronic, gnomonic, harmonic, hedonic, hegemonic, hydroponic, hypersonic, hypertonic, ionic, ironic, isoelectronic, isotonic, laconic, leptonic, masonic, microelectronic, mnemonic, monophonic, ovonic, pharaonic, philharmonic, phonic, planktonic, platonic, plutonic, pneumonic, polyphonic, sardonic, sonic, supersonic, symphonic, synchronic, tectonic, telephonic, tonic, ultrasonic. |
| 3 | -n i k | arsenic, beatnik, botanic, calisthenic, carcinogenic, clinic, cynic, Dominick, ethnic, eugenic, galvanic, germanic, hallucinogenic, inorganic, kibbutznik, manic, mechanic, messianic, monoclinic, multiethnic, neotenic, oceanic, organic, orogenic, panic, pathogenic, photogenic, polytechnic, psychogenic, pyrotechnic, refusenik, satanic, scenic, schizophrenic, splenic, Sputnik, technic, telegenic, Titanic, transgenic, transoceanic, tunic, tympanic, volcanic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-h-i-i-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: historic, orchitis, ornithic, rhinitis. | |
-3 letters: chitins, chitons, cistron, citrins, citrons, cortins, hornist, incisor, ironist, noirish, noritic, ostrich, soritic, thionic. | |
-4 letters: chinos, chints, chiros, chitin, chiton, choirs, citrin, citron, cortin, ichors, intros, ionics, iritic, iritis, ironic, nitric, nitros, norths, orchis, orcins, rhinos, ricins, snitch, thoric, thorns, tocsin, tonics, tonish. | |
-5 letters: chino, chins, chiro, chits, choir. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-h-i-i-i-n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: histrionics, trichinosis. | |
+2 letters: chlorinities, chronicities. | |
+3 letters: historicizing, ornithischian. | |
+4 letters: antihistorical, histrionically, ornithischians, trichomoniasis. | |
+5 letters: antiaphrodisiac, hypertonicities, synchronicities. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 69 73 74 72 69 6F 6E 69 63 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
|
| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
|
| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
|
| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
|
Morse Code (1836) (references).... .. ... - .-. .. --- -. .. -.-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
|
Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101001 01110011 01110100 01110010 01101001 01101111 01101110 01101001 01100011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H i s t r i o n i c |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0069 0073 0074 0072 0069 006F 006E 0069 0063 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
|
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)42758586847581807569 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions 7. Expressions: Internet 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Derivations 10. Rhymes 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
