melodrama

/ˈmel.əˌdrɑː.mə/

/-ˌdræm.ə/

Definition

› a story, play, or film in which the characters show stronger emotions than real people usually do: a television melodramamainly UK The car's hardly damaged - there's no need to make a melodrama out of it (= make the situation more important than it is).Types of film, play, book etc.

(Definition of melodrama noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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