stagey
1
8.7
- adjective
- /ˈsteɪdʒi/
:
artificial
- Her stagey gestures and exaggerated voice made it hard to take her seriously.
Examples
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With generally faster cutting than in his other films, The Bank Dick is well-paced, less stagey, and more cinematic.
Academic text (2002) -
Could it be facile and stagey?
Blog text (4) -
Remember now, this is a stagey kind of thing.
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Mark shot her a stagey grimace.
Fiction book (1998) -
He had an actor's voice, loud and stagey.
Fiction book (1996) -
"No—" My shout sounds small in all the stagey space.
Fiction book (1992) -
During the offertory, he began crying or weeping -- weeping, I guess, because there was something stagey about it.
Fiction book (1994) -
Gaslight was hard and bright, and it must have made Martin's pictures look even more vivid and stagey than they had in daylight or candlelight.
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There is a second way to calculate Ezili's wealth: not as a dream but delirium luxe, acted out with a stagey exuberance that mimics bourgeois consumption.
Academic text (1996) -
Because it is so stagey, the pose also provokes for Genet the shame of exposure: "Fear and then anger of having been afraid and reacting with fear in sight of a child's innocent eyes... made me grab the grip of my revolver and tear it from my holster."
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
358
3.6
Very noticeable and meant to get attention, like a long pause or strong gesture
98
4.8
Related to the theatre or showing strong feeling in a dramatic way like an actor on stage
32
5.6
Showing feelings in a way that is too strong
8
8.6
Exaggerated and theatrical on purpose to be funny in a silly way
7
4.9
Showing too much feeling about small things
1
8.1
Being too dramatic and not natural, like acting on a stage
Showing loud, dramatic behaviour that seems fake
Showing strong, often fake feelings in a dramatic way to get attention
Antonyms
How Theatrical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Stagey comes from the common word stage plus the ending -y, so it literally means 'like the stage'. A helpful way to remember it is this: if something is stagey it feels artificial or too theatrical, as if someone is performing for an audience instead of being natural.