stagey

1. 1.

   having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality

   “stagy heroics”

   Synonymsstagy

   Similartheatrical

Other forms of stagey

comparative

stageyer·

superlative

stageyest·

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 stagey

What does stagey mean?

stagey means "having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality".

How many syllables are in stagey?

stagey has 2 syllables: sta-gey. The stress falls on "sta".

What is another word for stagey?

Close synonyms include stagy. 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 stagey a common word?

stagey 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.