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| Date: | 1800-1900 |
| Language: | French |
| Origin: | mélodrame, from Greek melos ( MELODY) + French drame 'drama' |
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mel‧o‧dra‧ma
[uncountable and countable]
[uncountable and countable]1 a story or play in which very exciting or terrible things happen, and in which the characters and the emotions they show seem too strong to be real : He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.
He was behaving like a character in a Victorian melodrama.2 a situation in which people become more angry or upset than is really necessary : Come on, there's no need for all this melodrama.
Come on, there's no need for all this melodrama.