overdramatise

1. 1.

   present in an overly dramatic manner

   “She is overdramatizing her child's failure in the physics class”

   Synonymsoverdramatize

   Broaderdramatize

Other forms of overdramatise

past tense

overdramatised·

present participle

overdramatising·

third person

overdramatises·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about overdramatise

What does overdramatise mean?

overdramatise means "present in an overly dramatic manner".

How many syllables are in overdramatise?

overdramatise has 5 syllables: o-ver-dra-ma-tise. The stress falls on "dra".

What is another word for overdramatise?

Close synonyms include overdramatize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overdramatise a common word?

overdramatise is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.