melodrama

/หˆmษ›lษ™หŒdษนษ‘หmษ™/

IPA: /M EH1 L AH0 D R AA0 M AH0/

noun
  1. 1

    A kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes.

  2. 2

    A drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks

    โ€œthe melodrama in the grave digging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".โ€

  3. 3

    Any situation or action which is blown out of proportion.

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