= histrionic, adj. 1.

Theatrical or dramatic in character or style; esp. excessively theatrical, melodramatic, stagy. Also: characterized by pretence or deceit.

Characteristic of a pageant; vain, ostentatious; mock, illusory, without real significance. Now archaic and rare.

That ‘plays a part’; †representing or exhibiting in the manner of an actor (obsolete); that simulates, or is simulated; artificial, affected, assumed.

That simulates an appearance. Obsolete.

= theatrical, adj. 2.

That play-acts; theatrical, insincere.