Definition for Melodrama:

• Sensational dramatic piece with violent appeals to emotions& happy ending; language, behaviour, suggestive of this; ( formerly) play with songs interspersed. Hence melodramatic a., melodramatically adv., melodramatist n., melodramatize v. t. [ French]

Synonyms for Melodrama:

• n.

  •
  • allegory,
  • adaptation,
  • classic,
  • anecdote,
  • black comedy,
  • detective,
  • cock-and-bull story,
  • epic.
  •
  • sentimental.
  •bathos (noun)
  • anticlimax,
  • letdown,
  • comedown,
  • melodramas.
  •communication (noun)
  • melodrama.
  •drama (noun)
  • choreography,
  • variety,
  • presentation,
  • tear-jerker,
  • emotion,
  • skit,
  • vaudeville,
  • boards,
  • mystery,
  • vehicle,
  • show business,
  • footlights,
  • ballet,
  • improvisation,
  • show,
  • tragedy,
  • broadway,
  • rendering,
  • showmanship,
  • dramatic art,
  • scene,
  • play,
  • comedy,
  • panorama,
  • suspense,
  • dramaturgy,
  • stagecraft,
  • theater,
  • crisis,
  • spectacle,
  • pantomime,
  • tension,
  • thespian art,
  • pageant,
  • dramatics,
  • mime,
  • farce,
  • improvisational drama,
  • stage show,
  • histrionic art,
  • theatrics,
  • burlesque,
  • teleplay,
  • climax,
  • dramatization,
  • characterization,
  • production.
  •dramatization (noun)
  • entertainment.
  •excitement (noun)
  • animation,
  • urge,
  • adventure,
  • intoxication,
  • instigation,
  • flurry,
  • wildness,
  • fever,
  • furor,
  • agitation,
  • excitation,
  • motivation,
  • impulse,
  • confusion,
  • action,
  • ado,
  • stimulation,
  • frenzy,
  • heat,
  • thrill,
  • tumult,
  • movement,
  • to do,
  • disturbance,
  • discomposure,
  • trepidation,
  • stir,
  • commotion,
  • passion,
  • buzz,
  • rage,
  • elation,
  • provocation,
  • hurry,
  • motivations,
  • hullabaloo,
  • titillation,
  • to-do,
  • ferment,
  • TODO,
  • turmoil,
  • feeling,
  • warmth,
  • stimulus,
  • dither,
  • hubbub,
  • motive,
  • Kicks,
  • bother,
  • perturbation,
  • activity,
  • hysteria,
  • fuss.
  •play (noun)
  • opera.
  •romance (noun)
  • fantasy,
  • idealization,
  • fairy tale,
  • fiction,
  • novel,
  • ballad,
  • tale,
  • story,
  • lyric,
  • legend.
  •sentimentality (noun)
  • nostalgia,
  • sentiment,
  • reminiscence,
  • melodramatics.
  •soap opera (noun)
  • soap,
  • serial.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • maudlin,
  • schmaltzy,
  • sappy,
  • treacly,
  • mawkish,
  • hokey,
  • histrionics,
  • soppy,
  • saccharine.
  •
  • Theatricals,
  • mushy,
  • syrupy,
  • theatrical,
  • hysterics.
  •
  • slush,
  • piece,
  • mush.
  •
  • sloppy.
  •
  • slop.
  •emotionalism
  • sensationalism.

Paraphrases for Melodrama:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    drama.

Antonyms for Melodrama:

• n.

  • bathos
    boon.
  • drama
    calmness, peace, comedy, tragedy.
  • excitement
    cessation, inaction, idleness, lull, discouragement, hindrance, inertia, stoppage, depression, quiet, dullness, frigidity, hate, apathy, happiness, calm, inactivity, stillness, rest, order, boredom.
  • romance
    non-fiction, truth.

Melodrama Sentence Examples:

• But Frank will not have her at any price, because his ideal Shakespear is rather like a sailor in a melodrama; and a sailor in a melodrama must adore his mother.

• I'm equal to melodrama I think, and I'll give you Miss St. Clair as Juliet, if you wait a moment.

Homophones for Melodrama:

• military man, mail train.

Hyponym for Melodrama:

• n.

  • communication
    comedy.