Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama.
- adjective Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental; histrionic.
- adjective Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, suitable for, or having the character of melodrama.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
melodrama ; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. - adjective Exaggeratedly
emotional orsentimental .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama
- adjective characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected
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Examples
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The teacher whose cell number you somehow got hold of so you could call her on weekends to discuss your grievances against other students and their parents in melodramatic fashion.
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The president has made a tic of hammering in melodramatic movie tropes: good vs. evil, you're with us or you're with the terrorists, "wanted dead or alive," "bring 'em on," "mission accomplished."
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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On what can you possibly base that scenario, which you yourself call melodramatic? "
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If we don't include him in events or if we broach the topic of his social behavior, he treats it as a disaster and gets very melodramatic -- in other words, he pulls out all the stops on us!
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A story of exciting action certainly; it has elements that would ordinarily be called melodramatic -- events which are focussed down into realities against the tremendous background of an incredible war.
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What one may call the melodramatic Irish story, in which Lever was so brilliantly successful, has its first famous example in _The Collegians_ of Gerald Griffin.
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Miss Havisham and her protegee, Estella, whom she educates to be the scourge of men, belong to what may be called the melodramatic side of Dickens 'art.
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Glaucus and Nydia at Pompeii would be called melodramatic rant.
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