dramastic

comparative more dramastic · superlative most dramastic

1. Drastically dramatic.

   Kenneth Burke: ‘the dramastic pentad’ An example of such a technique is ‘the dramastic pentad’, another aspect of Kenneth Burke's theory.

   2009, Market Research Society, International Journal of Market Research: The Journal of the Market Research Society, volume 51, numbers 4-6, NTC Publications Limited, page 442

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   The latest European and English and Irish plays, not forgetting American, are played, both in English and in Japanese versions in which their fathers would hardly recognise their dramastic children.

   1920, Asian Review: The Only English Monthly in Japan on Politics, Economy, Arts, Etc. of Asia, Managed and Edited by Japanese, volume 1, Kokuryukai., page 494

   A DRAMASTIC THING HAPPENED! Let me answer your first question right away. No the title is not a mistake, well... yes it was a mistake, but it's not anymore.

   2008 February 1, Russ Lawson, Stories to Touch the Heart, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 87

   “Las Vegas?” said Gert, shaking her tiny head. “This is all very dramastic.” “Dramastic?” said Bert. “That's not a word, Gert.” “Are you making up words again?” Bert asked. Gert smiled. “It should be. Dramatic plus drastic. Dramastic!”

   2014 April 8, Kate Klise, M. Sarah Klise, The Show Must Go On!, illustrated edition, volume 1, Algonquin Books, →ISBN, page 24

   It was an intense few minutes of basketball in a meaningful game, and Pippen said so after this game. Or at least I think he did. What he said was that the last five minutes of the game were “dramastic.” That's right. It's a combo word, putting together the word “dramatic” with the word “drastic.” Had it been intentional, it would have been genius. I don't think it was intentional. But “dramastic” should be a word.

   2014 October 1, Kent McDill, Bill Cartwright, chapter 56, in If These Walls Could Talk: Chicago Bulls: Stories from the Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box of the Chicago Bulls Dynasty, Triumph Books, →ISBN, page 167

   In a large collection of more than 1,018 formations, Reischer (2008) finds that nouns are the most frequent output category of blends in English (almost 80 per cent, e.g. brunch, buffeteria, diagnonsense), followed by adjectives (11 per cent, e.g. bleen ◇ blue + green, dramastic ◇ dramatic + drastic, and verbs (4 per cent, guesstimate).

   2015, Laurie Bauer, Rochelle Lieber, Ingo Plag, chapter IV, in The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology, illustrated, reprint edition, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 459