Synonyms of mannered

mannered

adjective

as in exaggerated

Synonyms & Similar Words

• exaggerated
• pretentious
• showy
• unnatural
• studied
• self-conscious
• flamboyant
• ostentatious
• conspicuous
• staged
• affected
• grandiose
• artificial
• elaborate
• overacted
• stagey
• theatric
• melodramatic
• sensational
• theatrical
• overdone
• histrionic
• actorly
• stagy
• dramatic
• hammy
• actorish
• actressy

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unaffected
• unpretentious
• restrained
• subdued
• undramatic
• muted
• conservative
• discreet
• inconspicuous
• quiet
• toned (down)
• simple
• nondramatic
• underplayed
• modest
• plain
• nontheatrical

Examples of mannered in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Named alphabetically, Anthony, Benedict, Colin, Daphne, Eloise, Francesca, Gregory, and Hyacinth are good-looking, well mannered, and, of course, monied. —Zoe Haylock, Vulture, 16 May 2024

But Kinds of Kindness is too parched and mannered to be either disturbing or funny or both—and not even its capable cast can rescue it. —Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 17 May 2024

Chastain’s and Hathaway’s performances haven’t the precisely mannered intensity of Veerle Baetens and Anne Coesens in the original, but there’s interest in the duality of their takes on the Betty Draper ideal, driven to derangement by nerves and poise respectively. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024

There are bright spots: Bill Camp introduces a welcome note of surly realism even at the height of the film’s most mannered lunacy, and a third-act cameo arrives just in time to almost save the day. —Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2024