(archaic, uncountable) A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.

plural of melodrama

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. / Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.

Overemotional, exaggerated behavior calculated for effect.

In a melodramatic manner.

A writer of melodramas. / An actor in melodramas. / A melodramatic person.

plural of melodramatist

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of melodramatise

present participle of melodramatize

simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize