melodramatic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˌmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/ (UK)
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/ (UK)
Etymology
From melodrama + -tic. Modelled after dramatic.
Meanings
- Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
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Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
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".
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 06 Jul 2025: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.
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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more melodramatic | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most melodramatic | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| melo-dramatic | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
nonmelodramatic · melodramaticness · unmelodramatic · melodramatically · melodramaticism
Relateds
Translations (30)
ru мелодрамати́ческий (exaggeratedly emotional) · de melodramatisch (of or pertaining to melodrama) · fr mélodramatique (of or pertaining to melodrama) · sv melodramatisk (of or pertaining to melodrama) · ca melodramàtic (exaggeratedly emotional) · tr melodramatik (of or pertaining to melodrama) · ru напы́щенный (exaggeratedly emotional) · cy melodramataidd (exaggeratedly emotional) · cy melodramatig (of or pertaining to melodrama) · it melodrammatico (exaggeratedly emotional) · pt melodramático (exaggeratedly emotional) · ro melodramatic (of or pertaining to melodrama) · es melodramático (of or pertaining to melodrama) · fi melodramaattinen (exaggeratedly emotional) · fi pateettinen (exaggeratedly emotional) · te ఏడుపుగొట్టు (of or pertaining to melodrama) · it patetico (exaggeratedly emotional) · cy melodramataidd (of or pertaining to melodrama) · el μελοδραματικός (of or pertaining to melodrama) · it melodrammatico (of or pertaining to melodrama) · cs melodramatický (of or pertaining to melodrama) · es melodramático (exaggeratedly emotional) · pt melodramático (of or pertaining to melodrama) · tl mahimigdula (of or pertaining to melodrama) · fi melodramaattinen (of or pertaining to melodrama) · ca melodramàtic (of or pertaining to melodrama) · bg мелодраматичен (exaggeratedly emotional) · ru мелодрамати́ческий (of or pertaining to melodrama) · el μελοδραματικός (exaggeratedly emotional) · te ఏడుపుగొట్టు (exaggeratedly emotional)