melodramatic

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/, /ˌmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/

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^[1], 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.

Related terms

• melodramatics

Translations

of or pertaining to melodrama

• Catalan: melodramàtic
• Czech: melodramatický m
• Finnish: melodramaattinen (fi)
• French: mélodramatique (fr)
• German: melodramatisch
• Greek: μελοδραματικός (el) (melodramatikós)
• Italian: melodrammatico (it)
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• Portuguese: melodramático
• Romanian: melodramatic (ro)
• Russian: мелодрамати́ческий (ru) (melodramatíčeskij)
• Spanish: melodramático
• Swedish: melodramatisk (sv)
• Tagalog: mahimigdula
• Telugu: ఏడుపుగొట్టు (ēḍupugoṭṭu)

exaggeratedly emotional

• Catalan: melodramàtic
• Finnish: pateettinen (fi), melodramaattinen (fi)
• Greek: μελοδραματικός (el) (melodramatikós)
• Italian: patetico (it), melodrammatico (it)
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• Portuguese: melodramático
• Russian: мелодрамати́ческий (ru) (melodramatíčeskij), напы́щенный (ru) (napýščennyj)
• Telugu: ఏడుపుగొట్టు (ēḍupugoṭṭu)