melodramatic

Adjective

1. Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
2. Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
   • She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
   • Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette,...
   • In it, the officer insisted he did not depart from NCND and gave a melodramatic account of my "long pauses" as I said I needed the story, before I eventually became cooperative and said I had "seen the light". - 2025...