Usually means: Exaggerated, theatrical display of emotions.
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  1. melodramatics: Merriam-Webster
  2. melodramatics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. melodramatics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. melodramatics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. melodramatics: Wordnik
  6. melodramatics: Wiktionary
  7. melodramatics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. melodramatics: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. melodramatics: Dictionary.com
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▸ noun:  Overemotional, exaggerated behavior calculated for effect.

Similar:
histrionic, dramatic, theatrical, overdramatics, melodrama, overdramatization, dramaticism, drama queenism, overemotionalism, overdramatisation, more...

Opposite:
understated, subdued, restrained, low-key

Adjectives:
such, cheap, old, victorian, ridiculous, absurd, flossy



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Similar:
histrionic, dramatic, theatrical, overdramatics, melodrama, overdramatization, dramaticism, drama queenism, overemotionalism, overdramatisation, more...

Opposite:
understated, subdued, restrained, low-key

Adjectives:
such, cheap, old, victorian, ridiculous, absurd, flossy



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