stagy
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8.1
- adjective
- /ˈsteɪdʒi/
:
teatral
- She laughed in a stagy way, making it clear she was pretending to enjoy the joke.
It never felt stagy, you know, we always felt once we were on set, the sets were very real.
- It never felt stagy, you know, we always felt once we were on set, the sets were very real.
Examples
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His performance was overly stagy, filled with dramatic gestures that seemed artificial.
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It's a little bit stagy, with his back to them, but I think it works.
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It never felt stagy, you know, we always felt once we were on set, the sets were very real.
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He spread his hands, expressing a stagy degree of helplessness.
Fiction book (2001) -
The hours roll by and the drinks loosen them, and soon they are confessing which high school shows they were in, bursting into stagy refrains.
Fiction book (2001) -
For weeks before she finally left, she had been maintaining an unsuccessful and debilitating cheerfulness in front of Conor, a stagy display of frozen failed smiles.
Fiction book (1995) -
When he was ready to leave, he covered me with a rainslicker, kissed me goodnight, and made an exit up the companionway that would have made me laugh if I had seen it in a movie, full as it was of a stagy, masculine dash.
Fiction book (1995) -
As my father headed toward the kitchen, she called after him: "You'd forget your head if it wasn't screwed on," but her voice was loud and stagy, informing me that this was a clever ruse to get my father out of the room.
Fiction book (1997) -
The director warned the actors not to deliver their lines in a stagy manner, focusing instead on natural performances.
Synonyms
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4.8
Related to the theatre or showing strong feeling in a dramatic way like an actor on stage
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7.4
Too formal and unnatural in speech or writing so it sounds awkward
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4.9
Showing too much feeling about small things
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8.7
Not natural and overly dramatic, like acting in a play
Relating to the theatre or acting and showing very dramatic behaviour
Showing loud, dramatic behaviour that seems fake
Showing strong, often fake feelings in a dramatic way to get attention
Showy in a way that does not seem honest
Antonyms
How Theatrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stagy comes from stage, the place for a 'performance', plus the ending -y which means 'like' or 'full of'. So stagy describes behaviour that looks like acting on a stage, meaning it is too theatrical and not natural.