operatically

adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English operatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English operatically From operatic + -ally.

1. In an operatic manner.

   “Notable too, if only for historical interest, was a sonata by Donizetti in which, not surprisingly, an operatically shaped flute line is set over a dramatic piano accompaniment.”

   “There Agnes operatically ponders (“I hear footsteps, awful coming footsteps”; “I am run through and through with disaster; I am knifed to the hilt with fate”), poeticizing even her wounds, the bruises “blossoming like star clusters under the skin.””