dramatic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek δραματικός (dramatikós), from δρᾶμα (drâma, “drama, play”), from δράω (dráō, “I do, accomplish”).

adj

1. Of or relating to the drama.
   Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord. 1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
2. Striking in appearance or effect.
   Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family. 1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430
   Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade. Before 2000 half of the country’s rural adults had finished only primary school. Yet international rankings now put the country’s students well ahead of America’s in science and maths (the strongest predictor of future earnings), even as the country spends far less per pupil. 2013-08-17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849
3. Having a powerful, expressive singing voice.
4. (informal) Tending to exaggerate in order to get attention.
   You're not bleeding out; the knife barely scratched your skin. Stop being so dramatic!