drama
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway
Types & categories
- dramatic composition hypernym
- Grand Guignol hyponym
- theater of the absurd hyponym
- playlet hyponym
- miracle play hyponym
- morality play hyponym
- mystery play hyponym
- Passion play hyponym
- satyr play hyponym
Parts & wholes
- stage direction part meronym
- act part meronym
Related & opposite
Sense 2 noun
an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional
Types & categories
- episode hypernym
- night terror hyponym
Related & opposite
Sense 3 noun
the literary genre of works intended for the theater
Types & categories
- writing style hypernym
- closet drama hyponym
- comedy hyponym
- tragedy hyponym
Related & opposite
- dramatist derivation
- dramatize derivation
- dramatize derivation
- dramatic derivation
- warhorse has domain topic
- play has domain topic
- black humor has domain topic
- likable has domain topic
- unappealing has domain topic
- tragic has domain topic
- comic has domain topic
- tragicomic has domain topic
Sense 4 noun
the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
Types & categories
- emotionality hypernym
Related & opposite
- dramatic attribute
- undramatic attribute
- dramatize derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | playlet |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatist |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | play |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | play |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | act |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | roleplay |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatic |
| 1 | domain topic | Related & opposite | drama |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | stage direction |
| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | act |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | dramatic composition |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Grand Guignol |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | theater of the absurd |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | playlet |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | miracle play |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | morality play |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | mystery play |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | Passion play |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | satyr play |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pad |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatic |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | striking |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | episode |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | night terror |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatist |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatic |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | warhorse |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | play |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | black humor |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | likable |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | unappealing |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | tragic |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | comic |
| 3 | has domain topic | Related & opposite | tragicomic |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | writing style |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | closet drama |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | comedy |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | tragedy |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | dramatic |
| 4 | attribute | Related & opposite | undramatic |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | dramatize |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | emotionality |