melodramatic

Definition

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.

Etymology

From melodrama + -tic. Modelled after dramatic.

Example Sentences

• "She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself."
• "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."
• "In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light"."