- 1a story, play, or novel that is full of exciting events and in which the characters and emotions seem too exaggerated to be real a gripping Victorian melodrama Instead of tragedy, we got melodrama.
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- 2events, behavior, etc. that are exaggerated or extreme Her love of melodrama meant that any small problem became a crisis.
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