melodramatic

See also: melodramàtic and melo-dramatic

English

From melodrama +‎ -tic.

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.

of or pertaining to melodrama

exaggeratedly emotional

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

		masculine	feminine	masculine	neuter
		singular		plural
nominative- accusative	indefinite	melodramatic	melodramatică	melodramatici	melodramatice
nominative- accusative	definite	melodramaticul	melodramatica	melodramaticii	melodramaticele
genitive- dative	indefinite	melodramatic	melodramatice	melodramatici	melodramatice
genitive- dative	definite	melodramaticului	melodramaticei	melodramaticilor	melodramaticelor