Usually means: Excessively dramatic or emotional behavior.
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  1. histrionic: Merriam-Webster
  2. histrionic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. histrionic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. histrionic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. histrionic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Histrionic, histrionic: Wordnik
  7. histrionic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. histrionic: Wiktionary
  9. histrionic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. histrionic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. histrionic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Histrionic, histrionic: Dictionary.com
  13. histrionic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. histrionic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Histrionic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Histrionic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. histrionic: Rhymezone
  18. Histrionic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. histrionic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. histrionic: FreeDictionary.org
  21. histrionic: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. histrionic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. histrionic: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. histrionic: Legal dictionary

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  1. histrionic: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. histrionic: A Word A Day
  2. histrionic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. histrionic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See histrionically as well.)

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adjective:  Of or relating to actors or acting.
adjective:  (by extension) Excessively dramatic or emotional, especially with the intention to draw attention.

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