melodramatic

See also: melodramàtic and melo-dramatic

English

From melodrama +‎ -tic. Modelled after dramatic.

melodramatic (comparative more melodramatic, superlative most melodramatic)

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
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^[1], London, New York, N.Y.: George Routledge & Co., →OCLC, 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.
- 2025 July 6, Daniel De Simone, “How MI5 piled falsehood on falsehood in court in the case of a spy who abused women”, in BBC News‎^[2], archived from the original on 19 March 2026:
  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".

of or pertaining to melodrama

exaggeratedly emotional

Bulgarian: мелодраматичен (bg) (melodramatičen)
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)
Spanish: melodramático (es)
Telugu: ఏడుపుగొట్టు (ēḍupugoṭṭu)
Welsh: melodramataidd

Borrowed from Italian melodrammatico. By surface analysis, melodramă + -atic.

melodramatic m or n (feminine singular melodramatică, masculine plural melodramatici, feminine/neuter plural melodramatice)