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What is the adjective for melodramatic?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs melodramatize and melodramatise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

melodramatic
  1. Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
  2. Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. theatrical, histrionic, dramatic, stagy, theatric, exaggerated, stagey, hammy, operatic, actorly, sentimental, actressy, artificial, overdone, overdramatic, overemotional, extravagant, sensational, sensationalised, sensationalized, ham, hokey, spectacular, over-sensational, blood-and-thunder, cloak-and-dagger, over-the-top, acting up, affected, forced, overacted, stilted, mannered, showy, unnatural, unreal, histrionical, flamboyant, ostentatious, overripe, comic, emotional, campy, camp, schmaltzy, staged, pretentious, tragic, barnstorming, pompous … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “She handles the final monologue tastefully, without slipping into vomitous, melodramatic overkill.”
      “She leaves a suicide note, whose contents are held back until an appropriately melodramatic turning point.”
      “The narrative material is obviously shaped in order to wring the audience's melodramatic heart.”
melodramatized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of melodramatize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. overacted, hammed, hammed it up, chewed the scenery, tore a cat, torn a cat, exaggerated, overplayed, laid it on thick, overdid it, overdone it, mugged, burlesqued, caricatured, emoted, travestied, theatricalized, overemphasized, overemphasised, chewed up the scenery, overplayed it, laid it on with a trowel, made a production of, camped it up, piled it on, went overboard, gone overboard, dramatized, overdramatized, dramatised, catastrophized, overstated the case, made a mountain out of a molehill, expressed emotion, acted, overdone, overdid, blown up out of all proportion, given someone a sob story, gave someone a sob story, blew up out of all proportion, overstated, embellished, magnified, amplified … more
melodramatizing
  1. present participle of melodramatize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. overacting, hamming, hamming it up, chewing the scenery, tearing a cat, exaggerating, overplaying, overdoing it, laying it on thick, mugging, overemphasizing, overemphasising, going overboard, laying it on with a trowel, piling it on, making a production of, camping it up, overplaying it, travestying, caricaturing, burlesquing, theatricalizing, emoting, chewing up the scenery, overstating, embellishing, magnifying, embroidering, dramatizing, amplifying, inflating, overdrawing, colouring, belabouring, stretching, overestimating, overdramatizing, puffing, belaboring, overusing, overworking, overvaluing, overrating, overembellishing, overreaching, hyping, blowing up out of all proportion, going too far, coloring, overdoing … more
melodramatised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of melodramatise
melodramatising
  1. present participle of melodramatise
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