Meanings
comparative more untheatrical · superlative most untheatrical
- Not theatrical; mundane; not staged.
Some people claim that Beckett's plays have grown more and more untheatrical. I believe the opposite is true
1983, Charles R. Lyons, Samuel Beckett, page 131 more example
Mr. Brown’s work is an odd mixture of theatrical and untheatrical — even antitheatrical — elements in other aspects too.
2009 February 12, Alastair Macaulay, “Out of West Africa (via Brooklyn), From the Ground Up”, in New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Germanic*un-
- Proto-West Germanic*un-
- Old Englishun-
- Middle Englishun-
- Englishun-
- Englishtheatrical
- Englishuntheatrical
From un- + theatrical.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
untheatrical. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/untheatrical
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