melodramatic

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
19
Words With Friends
23
Letters
12
Pronunciation
/ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/(UK)
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/ˌmɛl.ə.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/(UK) · /ˌmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˈmæt.ɪk/(UK)

Definition of melodramatic

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

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

  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.”
    “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".”

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Etymology

From melodrama + -tic. Modelled after dramatic.

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