melodramatic

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English

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Pronunciation

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

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian melodrammatico. Equivalent to melodramă +‎ -atic.

Adjective

melodramatic m or n (feminine singular melodramatică, masculine plural melodramatici, feminine and neuter plural melodramatice)

  1. melodramatic

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