1 [onlybeforenoun] connected with the theatre:
a theatrical agent / career
2 (often disapproving) (of behaviour) exaggerated in order to attract attention or create a particular effect:
a theatrical gesture / sigh
theatrically adverb:
Theatrically speaking, he was a genius. * 'What now?' she sighed theatrically.
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