the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, suitable for, or resembling, the opera.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to, appropriate to, designed for, or resembling opera: as, an operatic air.
Working; productive; operative.
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adj. of or relating to or characteristic of opera
Word Usage
"People are never equal to the romance of their youth in after life, except by fits, and Ferris especially could not keep himself at what he called the operatic pitch of their brief betrothal and the early days of their marriage."