Relating to opera, or describing something dramatic and exaggerated in style, often with grand emotional expression.
From Italian 'opera' (work, from Latin 'opera' meaning labor or service) plus the English suffix '-atic.' Opera itself emerged in Renaissance Italy as an art form combining music and drama.
The term 'operatic' is now often used sarcastically to describe over-the-top dramatic behavior—like a teenager 'operatic' about a broken phone—showing how art forms create new ways to describe human emotion!
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