Usually means: Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental behavior.
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  1. melodramatic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. melodramatic: Merriam-Webster
  3. melodramatic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. melodramatic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. melodramatic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. melodramatic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Melodramatic, melodramatic: Wordnik
  8. melodramatic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. melodramatic: Wiktionary
  10. melodramatic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. melodramatic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. melodramatic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Melodramatic, melodramatic: Dictionary.com
  14. melodramatic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Melodramatic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Melodramatic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. melodramatic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. melodramatic: Rhymezone
  19. melodramatic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. melodramatic: FreeDictionary.org
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▸ adjective:  Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
▸ adjective:  Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.

Similar:
histrionic, dramatic, theatrical, melo-dramatic, mimodramatic, musicodramatic, dramatical, teledramatic, dramatological, monodramatic, more...

Opposite:
understated, subtle, restrained

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over-the-top, campy, soap opera, more...

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Be Melodramatic, get melodramatic, melodramatic conduct, arousing sadness in a melodramatic way, melodramatic style, more...

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Similar:
histrionic, dramatic, theatrical, melo-dramatic, mimodramatic, musicodramatic, dramatical, teledramatic, dramatological, monodramatic, more...

Opposite:
understated, subtle, restrained

Types:
over-the-top, campy, soap opera, more...

Phrases:
Be Melodramatic, get melodramatic, melodramatic conduct, arousing sadness in a melodramatic way, melodramatic style, melodramatic exclamation, melodramatic to excess, melodramatic cry, more...

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     burgundy,     violet,     indigo, more...



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