Dramatic means sudden and striking, or to do with the theatre. A dramatic change, dramatic irony, dramatically improved.
Dramatic irony is when the audience knows something a character does not, and it is the engine of nearly every tragedy. In ordinary use the word means large and sudden — a dramatic fall in numbers — and it has been worn thin by headline writers.
1adjectivedramaticSudden and striking.
“There has been a dramatic rise in house prices this year.”
2adjectivetheatreTo do with the theatre.
“She studied dramatic arts at college and now acts on stage.”
dramatic is a quality of effect.
Ancient Greek
δρᾱμᾰτῐκός
Latin
drāmaticus
English, today
dramatic
Learned borrowing from Latin drāmaticus, from Ancient Greek δρᾱμᾰτῐκός.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA