melodramatic — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.

2. Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.

   Examples

   She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.

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   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.

   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".

Adjective

1. having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama

   Examples

   a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea

2. characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected

   Synonyms

   histrionic

   Examples

   histrionic gestures

   an attitude of melodramatic despair

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   a theatrical pose