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Meanings of melodrama in English

Russian
мелодрама
Portuguese
melodrama
Spanish
melodrama
Catalan
melodrames
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Dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions.

Related terms
мелодрама
Usage of melodrama in English
1
It transforms German history into a gangster melodrama often with surprising exactness.
The Guardian
2
True, the film veers into melodrama and contrivances in the second half.
Reuters
3
Hindi melodrama with Abraham as a compulsive gambler in need of reform.
The Guardian
4
This seems almost melodramatic; and melodrama is bad enough at Drury Lane.
The Translation of a Savage, Volume 2
5
Hopefully soon we will be done with the melodrama and the semaphoring.
The Guardian
6
And my policy was to dissemble, like the man in a melodrama.
The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 / An Illustrated Mont...
7
It was comic opera, but the tinge of melodrama was not absent.
The Half-Hearted
8
The potential for melodrama is further mediated by the novel's rigorous structure.
Reuters
9
It was all, when one looked back upon it, the rankest melodrama.
The Prelude to Adventure
10
His extensive involvement with melodrama was not Fibich's only unusual musical venture.
The Irish Times
11
Though the plot was confused, a tremendous atmosphere of melodrama built up.
The Guardian
12
Eileen almost betrayed herself by giggling, as at the real stage melodrama.
The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes
13
For melodrama, unlike the more fashionable comedy, gets to grips at once.
If I May
14
She had been thrilled by a melodrama and pleased by an operetta.
Celibates
15
But the Donnellan melodrama is over and Michael lines out at centrefield.
The Irish Times
16
The Korean director is at it again with this extraordinarily sinewy melodrama.
The Irish Times
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Translations for melodrama
Spanish
melodrama
Melodrama through the time
Melodrama across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common