Melodramatic
[melədrə'mætɪk] or [,mɛlədrə'mætɪk]
Definition
(adj.) having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama; 'a melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea' .
Checker: Patty--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
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Examples
- You can't stay here, so what's the use of being melodramatic? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It takes a long perspective and no very vivid acquaintance with revolution to be melodramatic about it. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It puts melodramatic nonsense into the pilgrims' heads. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Silence a la mort, replied Laurie, with a melodramatic flourish, as he went away. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- True it is that his soldiers, who, save for a few rare melodramatic encounters, saw nothing of him, idolized their Little Corporal. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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