| 单词 |
undramatic |
| 释义 |
undraˈmatic, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Lacking the essential qualities of drama.
1754A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 94, The following Lines..are certainly very inartificial and undramatic. 1805Ann. Rev. III. 621 As works of literary art, these dialogues are dull and undramatic. 1861Geo. Eliot in Cross Life (1885) II. 289 These less known undramatic tales of want.
2. Not gifted with or exhibiting dramatic power; not adapted for the production of drama.
1769Garrick's Vagary 10 Procuring the Stage's deliverance from the many undramatic Beasts of Lumber. 1821Byron Let. Jan., Wks. 194/2 Many people think my talent essentially undramatic. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 205 Goethe affirmed, that..Shakespeare was too undramatic for the German theatre.
b. Unable to appreciate drama.
1836T. Hook G. Gurney i, English audiences, who are..as undramatic in their notions as methodists.
3. Not written in the form of drama.
1840L. Hunt in Dram. Wks. Wycherley, etc. (Rtldg.) p. xxxv, Congreve's undramatic prose writings are few.
So undraˈmatical a., undraˈmatically adv.
1829Beddoes Let. Feb., in Poems (1851) p. lxxx, The play is too long;..the second [act] dull and *undramatical.
1827Sir H. Taylor Autobiog. (1885) I. 97 If I were to write another play at this rate, I might die *undramatically before the fifth act. 1901M. Pemberton Pro Patria xx. 223, I told him, undramatically, that I was the man. |
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