Definition of "dramatic"

Monteverde found the conditions of dramatic music more favourable to his experiments than those of choral music, in which both voices and ears are at their highest sensibility to discord.

1911, “Music”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

Each year remarkable advances in prenatal medicine bring ever more dramatic confirmation of what common sense told us all along-that the child in the womb is simply what each of us once was: a very young, very small, dependent, vulnerable member of the human family.

1986, Ronald Reagan, Proclamation 5430

Poland has made some dramatic gains in education in the past decade.

2013 August 17, “Best and brightest”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8849