Synonyms for drama
ˈdrɑ mə, ˈdræm ə

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. play, drama, dramatic play(noun)

   a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

   "he wrote several plays but only one was produced on Broadway"

   Synonyms:
   manoeuvre, looseness, fun, period of play, shimmer, play, bid, maneuver, caper, romp, dramatic event, gaming, sport, frolic, playing period, free rein, child's play, gambling, swordplay, gambol, dramatic play, turn

2. drama, dramatic event(noun)

   an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

   Synonyms:
   play, dramatic play, dramatic event

3. drama(noun)

   the literary genre of works intended for the theater

   Synonyms:
   play, dramatic play, dramatic event

4. drama(noun)

   the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

   Synonyms:
   play, dramatic play, dramatic event

Dictionary of English Synonymes(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. drama(n.)

   Synonyms:
   dramatic composition

2. drama(n.)

   Synonyms:
   dramatic literature

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1. List of paraphrases:

   dramas, tragedy, theatre, dramatic, theater, opera, tragic, theatrical, teatro

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US English

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British

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Australian

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Indian

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How to use drama in a sentence?

1. John Kennedy, Autobiography of malcolm x:

   Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of our racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles over racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it. Our children are still taught to respect the violence which reduced a red-skinned people of an earlier culture into a few fragmented groups herded into impoverished reservations.

2. Aaron Sorkin:

   People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building.

3. Walt Windham:

   I would n’t say there’s drama to a point where you hate each other, you’re just not scared to call each other out, sometimes they know too much about each other so they ’ll use that against each other and then you ’ll wake up the next morning sober and you’re like I kinda wan na know what happened but don’t wan na bring it up and then you drink the next night and then it comes up again until someone eventually squashes it.

4. Alfred Hitchcock:

   Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it.

5. André Maurois:

   A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.

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