Melodramatic
English Meaning
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
- Having the excitement and emotional appeal of melodrama: "a melodramatic account of two perilous days spent among the planters” ( Frank O. Gatell).
- Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental; histrionic: "Accuse me, if you will, of melodramatic embroidery” ( Erskine Childers).
- Characterized by false pathos and sentiment.