English

Adverb

dramatically ‎(comparative more dramatically, superlative most dramatically)

1. In a dramatic manner.
   • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 2, in The Lisson Grove Mystery:

     “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […] ”

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

     But ever since the concept of "hamartia" recurred through Aristotle's Poetics, in an attempt to describe man's ingrained iniquity, our impulse has been to identify a telling defect in those brought suddenly and dramatically low.

Translations

See also

• significantly
• drastically
• strikingly

External links

• dramatically in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• dramatically in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911