Melodrama

['melə(ʊ)drɑːmə] or ['mɛlədrɑmə]

Definition

(noun.) an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization.

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Definition

(n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".

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Definition

n. a kind of romantic and sensational drama formerly largely intermixed with songs—also Mel′odrame.—adj. Melodramat′ic of the nature of melodrama: overstrained: sensational.—n. Melodram′atist a writer of melodramas.

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