Synonyms for melodrama
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : mel-uh-drah-muh, -dram-uh |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛl əˌdrɑ mə, -ˌdræm ə |
Top 10 synonyms for melodrama Other synonyms for the word melodrama
- action
- activity
- ado
- agitation
- animation
- anticlimax
- ballad
- bathos
- boards
- bother
- Broadway
- climax
- comedown
- crisis
- daytime drama
- daytime serial
- daytime soap
- discomposure
- disturbance
- dither
- dramatic art
- dramatics
- dramatization
- dramaturgy
- emotionalness
- entertainment
- excitation
- fairy tale
- fantasy
- feeling
- ferment
- fever
- fiction
- flurry
- footlights
- frenzy
- furor
- fuss
- gushiness
- heat
- histrionic art
- histrionics
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- hurry
- hysteria
- idealization
- idyll
- impulse
- instigation
- intoxication
- kicks
- legend
- letdown
- love story
- lyric
- maudlinism
- maudlinness
- mawkishness
- melodrama
- melodramatics
- motivation
- motive
- movement
- mush
- mushiness
- nighttime soap
- nostalgia
- novel
- passion
- perturbation
- play
- production
- provocation
- rage
- reminiscence
- scene
- schmaltz
- sentiment
- sentimentalism
- serial
- show
- show business
- showmanship
- soap
- spectacle
- stage show
- stagecraft
- stimulation
- stimulus
- stir
- story
- tale
- tear-jerker
- tension
- theater
- theatricals
- theatrics
- thespian art
- thrill
- titillation
- to-do
- tragedy
- trepidation
- triteness
- tumult
- turmoil
- urge
- vehicle
- warmth
- wildness
Définition of melodrama
Origin :- 1784 (1782 as melo drame), "a stage-play in which songs were interspersed and music accompanied the action," from French mélodrame (18c.), from Greek melos "song" (see melody) + French drame "drama" (see drama). Meaning "a romantic and sensational dramatic piece with a happy ending" is from 1883, because this was often the form of the original melodramas. Also from French are Spanish melodrama, Italian melodramma, German melodram. Related: Melodramatize.
- As in romance : noun fanciful story or narrative
- As in bathos : noun sentimentality
- As in soap opera : noun serial broadcast drama
- As in sentimentality : noun sentimentalism
- As in maudlinism : noun sentimentality
- As in mawkishness : noun sentimentality
- As in mushiness : noun sentimentality
- As in sappiness : noun sentimentality
- As in schmaltz : noun sentimentality
- As in schmaltziness : noun sentimentality
- As in sentimentalism : noun sentimentality
- As in sloppiness : noun sentimentality
- As in drama : noun theatrical piece; acting
- As in drama : noun turmoil in real life
- As in dramatization : noun drama
- As in excitement : noun enthusiasm; incitement
- Yes, there was a fine scene when I went home that night, a Broadway melodrama.
- Extract from : « The Flying Mercury » by Eleanor M. Ingram
- Could any melodrama wish for a more appropriate mise-en-scne?
- Extract from : « The Mask » by Arthur Hornblow
- Staking all on high moments is melodrama with no comic relief.
- Extract from : « The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book » by Various
- I objected strongly to being treated as the villain of a melodrama.
- Extract from : « Love Among the Chickens » by P. G. Wodehouse
- We could hardly keep from laughing, it was so very like a melodrama.
- Extract from : « Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison » by Austin Biron Bidwell
- Angelo is pure melodrama; Marie Tudor is the melodrama of history.
- Extract from : « A History of French Literature » by Edward Dowden
- "We're to meet a man," Senesin said, with an air of melodrama.
- Extract from : « The Unnecessary Man » by Gordon Randall Garrett
- I sit, an audience, shedding crocodile tears at a melodrama.
- Extract from : « Fantazius Mallare » by Ben Hecht
- "I cannot avoid a touch of melodrama, you see," she confessed.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Paw » by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- In 1805 Lewis recast it into a melodrama, which he called Rugantino.
- Extract from : « The Bravo of Venice » by Heinrich Zschokke
Antonyms for melodrama
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