Word Finder - melodramatic

definition

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

definition

Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.

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

You.ve always been a little melodramatic, Katherine.

Isn't that a bit melodramatic?

While the movie is typically melodramatic, the passion and devotion of the students to their art and their team is not exaggerated at all.

Her hoity-toity attitude and melodramatic bow on the way out of the elimination room has been featured numerous times on clip shows.

The real title of this movie should be Batman the Action Soap Opera because most of the performances in this movie are bland at best, highly melodramatic and completely unnatural.

That may be a bit melodramatic, but the fact is people get attached to their phones and accustomed to the easy access it gives them to the people in their lives.

Whilst it might seem a touch melodramatic, there is certainly no shortage of passion on the field.

Middleton manages to craft tunes that are both heartbreaking and life affirming, without being overly melodramatic.

Even the accompanying background music seemed melodramatic to me, sort of over-indulgent, in a way.

In A the language is trying too hard, perhaps, to be dramatic and becomes melodramatic.

In both cases, neither Benigno nor Marco gets melodramatic about it, they're simply stating a fact.

Here as usual, Fish's rather stagey relish for the melodramatic theoretical gesture leads him astray.

It also has this melodramatic voice-over which tells the story.

The record of his last moments by La Touche is rather melodramatic and is certainly not above suspicion.

Here as usual, Fish 's rather stagey relish for the melodramatic theoretical gesture leads him astray.

It is not uncommon to see a Bollywood actor invoke God (or any of various Hindi gods), be tempted by the Devil, or speak of love in the most melodramatic of terms.

Don't you think that's getting a little melodramatic?

He was beginning to feel melodramatic about the whole thing, as if he were playacting one of Fred's grade "B" thrillers.

The overblown operatic style and melodramatic tempo changes epitomized a style lampooned by rock critics as pomp rock.

I wrote a lot of very lurid, melodramatic stories about people being trapped by the tide and swept away by whirlpools.

Geraldo is somewhat melodramatic, hurling his arms about like an Italian explaining there's a bomb in the windmill.

In an earlier version of this entry, I was rather melodramatic about this.

Without wishing to be too melodramatic about the issue, the role that you can play in this is also crucial.

Telramund, again, is no ordinary operatic villain; there is genuine tragedy in his moral ruin; and even the melodramatic Ortrud is a much more life-like intrigante than might be inferred from Wagner's hyperbolical stage-directions, which almost always show his manner at its worst.

The duchy of Berg, along with the eastern part of Cleves and other annexes, now went to Murat, brother-in-law of Napoleon (March 1806); and that melodramatic soldier at once began to round off his eastern boundary in a way highly offensive to Prussia.