Melodrama Synonyms & Definitions

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• MelodramaDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethovens "Fidelio".

• MelodramaticDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.