melodramatic

About 0.91 uses per million words.

Meaning

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

   She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.

Similar words

dramatic histrionic theatrical drama operatic tragic melo-dramatic mimodramatic musicodramatic dramatical

Often followed by

and imagination plot in story as style or to

Word family

melodramatically