full of exciting and extreme emotions or events; behaving or reacting to something in an exaggerated way a melodramatic plot full of deceit and murder
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NAmE//ˌmɛlədrəˈmæt̮ɪkli//
adverb He flung my gift melodramatically across the room.See melodramatic in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: melodramatic