theatricとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Late Latin theātricus, equivalent to theatre +‎ -ic.

形容詞

theatric (not comparable)

1. Relating to acting or the theater, theatrical.
   • 1889 July 12, Macon, “Macon’s Melange. The Big Fight As He Saw It. He Tells of Some By-Play at the Ring-Side. […]”, in The Cincinnati Enquirer, volume XLVII, number 195, Cincinnati, Oh., published 14 July 1889, page 11, column 6:

     A feature of the fight was the melodramaticness of the Champion of Champions. [John L.] Sullivan was intensely theatric at times. On several occasions, when the crowd gave vent to its displeasure at [Jake] Kilrain’s method of fighting, the big fellow would half turn toward it, and, raising his right arm aloft, would still the cries by a deprecating wave of his hand.

アナグラム

• chattier, chiretta