melodramatic
adjective
1 melodramatic
Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama.
Polish: melodramatyczny
2 melodramatic
Characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected:
— An attitude of melodramatic despair.
synonym: histrionic.
Roget 599: dramatic; theatric, theatrical; scenic, histrionic, comic, tragic, buskined†, farcical, tragicomic, melodramatic, operatic; stagy. ... show more
Polish: melodramatyczny
Moby thesaurus: Barnumesque, actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, cloak-and-dagger, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, exaggerated, film, filmic, ham, hammy, histrionic, hokey ... show more.
melodramatics
Moby thesaurus: Thespian art, amateur theatricals, blood and thunder, demonstrativeness, dramatic art, dramatic form, dramatic irony, dramatic stroke, dramatic structure, dramaticism, dramatics, dramatism, dramaturgy, emotional appeal, emotionalism, emotionality, emotionalization, emotionalizing, emotiveness, emotivity ... show more.
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