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melodramatic

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See also: melodramàtic and melo-dramatic

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From melodrama +‎ -tic. Modelled after dramatic.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Adjective

melodramatic (comparative more melodramatic, superlative most melodramatic)

  1. Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
  2. Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
    She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
    • 1854, Alexis [Benoît] Soyer, A Shilling Cookery for the People: Embracing an Entirely New System of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy‎, London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., →OCLC, page 125:
      Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.
    • 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 6 July 2025:
      In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light".

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian melodrammatico. Equivalent to melodramă +‎ -atic.

Adjective

melodramatic m or n (feminine singular melodramatică, masculine plural melodramatici, feminine/neuter plural melodramatice)

  1. melodramatic

Declension

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