melodramatic

melodramatic

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛl.ə.dɹəˌmæt.ɪk/, /ˈmɛl.əʊ.dɹəˌmæt.ɪk/

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 76167054, 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.

Related terms

• melodramatics

Translations

of or pertaining to melodrama

Catalan: melodramàtic Czech: melodramatický m Finnish: melodramaattinen (fi) French: mélodramatique (fr) German: melodramatisch Greek: μελοδραματικός (el) (melodramatikós) Italian: melodrammatico (it)

Portuguese: melodramático Romanian: melodramatic (ro) Russian: мелодрамати́ческий (ru) (melodramatíčeskij) Spanish: melodramático Swedish: melodramatisk (sv) Tagalog: mahimigdula Telugu: ఏడుపుగొట్టు (ēḍupugoṭṭu)

exaggeratedly emotional

Catalan: melodramàtic Finnish: pateettinen (fi), melodramaattinen (fi) Greek: μελοδραματικός (el) (melodramatikós) Italian: patetico (it), melodrammatico (it)

Portuguese: melodramático Russian: мелодрамати́ческий (ru) (melodramatíčeskij), напы́щенный (ru) (napýščennyj) Telugu: ఏడుపుగొట్టు (ēḍupugoṭṭu)