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Synonyms:
- comical, intense, ardent, artistic, mimed, stagy, dramatic, impassioned, theatrical, surprise, panoramic, emotional, spectacular, operatic, soulful, style, theatric, hysterical, improvisational, histrionic, exaggerated, tragic, hammy, passionate, tempestuous, excite, torrid, pantomimed, histrionical, sensational, burlesque
Examples:
- - His speaking eye and melodramatic manner made him in society a really charming man; literary ladies were enthusiastic in his favour. - "The Religious Life of London", J. Ewing Ritchie
- - Melodramatic villain comes on with a black dress, and a blacker scowl on his intellectual visage- has some hard words with the heroine- she calls him a " cowardly wretch," a " vile thing," defies him to his teeth, tells him to do his worst, and finishes in an exhausted mutter, in which I could only distinguish disconnected words, such as " poison," " vengeance," " heaven," " justice," " blood," " true- love," and " death." - "Doesticks, What He Says", Q. K. Philander Doesticks
- - To this they owe the melodramatic character of their music, even though it is on the surface only- music written for show, and aiming chiefly at effect. - "Musicians of To-Day", Romain Rolland Commentator: Claude Landi
Antonyms:
- matter-of-fact, unrewarding, untheatrical, stale, monotonous, quiet, simple, uneventful, unexceptional, unspectacular, restrained, undramatic, uninspiring, unsensational, common, toned, subdued, nondramatic, ordinary, unaffected, discreet, conservative, unexciting, muted, inconspicuous, commonplace, modest, underplayed, unpretentious, plain
