Melodrama is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MELODRAMA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a kind of romantic and sensational drama, also MELODRAME
• a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions
• the genre of melodrama
• behaviour or events that resemble melodrama
• a play interspersed with songs and orchestral music accompanying the action.
• play full of extravagant action and emotion
• 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 Beethoven\'s \"Fidelio\".
• an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a work (as a movie or play) characterized by extravagant theatricality and by the predominance of plot and physical action over characterization; the genre of dramatic literature constituted by such works

Words related to MELODRAMA

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Words that contain MELODRAMA

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How to use MELODRAMA in a sentence

• I felt rather like the hero of a melodrama making his exit after the big scene.
• You have stolen your ideas from cheap melodrama, and you make tragedy ridiculous.
• It has given place to the age of melodrama, when nothing is too strange to happen, and no one is ever surprised.
• After all, Life, wherever one sees it, is, if one has eyes, a wonderful pageant, the greatest spectacular melodrama I can imagine.
• I am not consoled by the false, written-up, Drury Lane aspects of that event, which is neither drama, nor melodrama, nor tragedy, but the exposure of arrogant folly.
• I honestly felt as if I were at some exciting melodrama.
• The tragedy would sink to tortuous melodrama, and there would be much mystery-mongering, with a careful covering up of dark secrets to be revealed only at an opportune moment.
• In spite of some passages which have strayed a little in the direction of opera, or even melodrama, the music shows great depth of feeling.
• Rinaldo hovers behind the scenes of a plot we do not know, but which must be as full of incident as a melodrama by Pixerecourt.
• There are few people who look their parts in life, but Emile might without addition or alteration, have been transferred to the stage as the typical villain of a melodrama.
• A writer in some English magazine once described it as a patchwork of melodrama and opera-bouffe.
• Only, in a melodrama, the bridegroom would be the hero, and the other fellow the villain.
• And would you believe this, Tony? My noble brother-in-law pretends to believe that Eagle got up the whole scene, like a plot in that melodrama you were talking about.
• Why, only the other day we children saved a Wild West melodrama from utter failure.
• He was a newspaper correspondent, and he saw these things with the halo of melodrama around them.
• There was not an ounce of melodrama in her, as she stood facing the situation.
• The average salaries in melodrama are L4 a week, out of which must be provided many dresses.
• Why should we, who have so much in common, quarrel into melodrama? I swear I love you.
• MELODRAMA BECOMES COMEDY Every race gets a nickname in America.
• The ancient melodrama owed its excellence to a union of these three languages.
• Allen can do no more than borrow the tricks of melodrama.
• But some instinct for melodrama in his constitution has led him to invent a larger number of conspirators than has been necessary to illustrate his contention.
• Browning escapes from melodrama but not to such a safe position that we can quite forget its neighbourhood.
• If his dress had been less untidy, he would have made a perfect villain of melodrama.
• The story of the pantomime is a more or less lurid eastern melodrama, based on the Arabian Nights.
• There must have been a ring of tragedy or melodrama in my voice, but really I said it only because I could think of nothing else to say at that moment.
• Do you think so? Well, so far as I am concerned, I prefer Melodrama.

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