operatic

Of, related to, or typical of opera.

Adjective

  1. Of, related to, or typical of opera.
    • The politician's address was so flamboyant as to be operatic.
    • She had stormed dramatically off and got on the first train she saw at Waterloo station and rode it the whole way down to Brighton, taking a room in a seedy B and B. But then, after a nap, still feeling wobbly and also...

Origin

From opera + -ic, probably influenced by dramatic.

Forms

more operatic most operatic

Derived

horse-operatic nonoperatic operatically operatic soprano poperatic semioperatic soap-operatic soap operatic space-operatic unoperatic