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adj. - Having the excitement and emotional appeal of a stage performance; Characteristic of acting or a stage performance.

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  • A melodramatic account of two perilous days at sea
  • The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
  • Glaucus and Nydia at Pompeii would be called melodramatic rant.
  • On what can you possibly base that scenario, which you yourself call melodramatic? "
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