Synonyms for stagy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : stey-jee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪ dʒi |
Top 10 synonyms for stagy Other synonyms for the word stagy
- adult
- affected
- alembicated
- artful
- artificial
- been around
- blasé
- blood-and-thunder
- bombastic
- chichi
- choosy
- cliff-hanging
- cloak-and-dagger
- couth
- cynical
- dainty
- declamatory
- delicate
- disillusioned
- dramatic
- elaborate
- elocutionary
- eloquent
- exaggerated
- experienced
- expressive
- fastidious
- fervid
- finicky
- forceful
- fragile
- fussy
- gesticulative
- gesturing
- grandiloquent
- ham
- hammy
- histrionic
- hokey
- impassioned
- important
- imposing
- in
- in the know
- inflated
- into
- intoning
- jaded
- jet-set
- knowing
- la-di-da
- laid-back
- lofty
- long-winded
- loud
- mondaine
- nice
- noble
- noisy
- on to
- orotund
- ostentatious
- overdramatic
- overemotional
- overnice
- overrefined
- particular
- persnickety
- persuasive
- pompous
- practiced
- precieux
- pretentious
- refined
- schooled
- seasoned
- senatorial
- sensational
- sharp
- showy
- skeptical
- smooth
- spectacular
- stagy
- stentorian
- streetwise
- studied
- suave
- svelte
- switched on
- tumid
- uptown
- urbane
- verbose
- vivid
- well-bred
- wise to
- wised up
- with it
- world-weary
- worldly wise
Définition of stagy
- As in melodramatic : adj extravagant in speech, behavior
- As in precious : adj extremely sophisticated and picky
- As in sophisticated : adj cosmopolitan, cultured
- As in oratorical : adj rhetorical
- He seized Bella and hugged her to his bosom in a most stagy manner.
- Extract from : « Ruth Fielding Down East » by Alice B. Emerson
- He told her he loved it twice as well as the stilted, stagy "Anita Adair."
- Extract from : « We Can't Have Everything » by Rupert Hughes
- If I detest anything, it is the unconventional, the stagy, the mysterious.
- Extract from : « The Firefly Of France » by Marion Polk Angellotti
- The attorney brushed back his mane with a stagy movement of his hand, and turned upon Arkansas.
- Extract from : « The Walking Delegate » by Leroy Scott
- I felt a chill go over me—the whole business was tricky, stagy; of a piece with the highfalutin talk.
- Extract from : « Plain Mary Smith » by Henry Wallace Phillips
- He condemns all that is affected or stagy; indeed his whole book is an eloquent plea for quiet and restraint.
- Extract from : « The Sounds of Spoken English » by Walter Rippmann
- Perhaps this was because he had purged himself of the stagy element in his abundant theatric exercise earlier.
- Extract from : « A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 » by George Saintsbury
- And they hire stage actors to interpret the stagiest of stage plots in as stagy a way as they know how.
- Extract from : « A Librarian's Open Shelf » by Arthur E. Bostwick
- "Go on up-stairs and dress," she said in a stagy voice when we had come within earshot.
- Extract from : « At the Age of Eve » by Kate Trimble Sharber
Antonyms for stagy
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