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[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: melodrame, from Greek melos ( MELODY) + French drame 'drama']
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.
a situation in which people become more angry or upset than is really necessary
::Come on, there's no need for all this melodrama.