Words and phrases that have a meaning related to melodrama: (118 results)
Often used in the same context:
drama, pathos, tragicomedy, potboiler, melodramatics, sentimentality, schmaltz, weepie, slapstick, tearjerker, psychodrama, maudlin, dramedy, fable, grand guignol, corniness, roundelay, didacticism, soap opera, triteness, sappiness, pastiche, absurdism, campy, histrionics, suspense, talky, noir, bathos, steaminess, fantasia, thriller, sordidness, mawkishness, schlock, staginess, film noir, soaper, shavian, sentimentalism, romanticism, hokum, emotionalism, oater, dramatization, plotline, farce, denouement, allegory, saccharine, grotesquerie, whodunit, satire, grimness, stylization, looniness, comedy, tearjerking, subplot, grandiloquence, cliches, salaciousness, narrative, bombast, moralizing, soapier, silliness, tawdriness, gothic romance, theatricality, spellbinder, melancholy, weeper, opera buffa, intrigue, cheesiness, operetta, subtext, playlet, hilarity, opera seria, kitsch, ponderousness, bravura, tale, antiheroine, theatrics, climaxes, stageplay, verite, whimsy, archness, romance, sendup, hackwork, tragi, cornpone, docudrama, picaresque, epics, trashiness, creepiness, melodramas, novel, pantomime, novels, fiction, dramas, plays, burlesque, extravaganza, opera, thrillers, ballet, comedies, farces
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Also try:melodramatic, melodramatically
— Adjectives for melodrama: romantic, victorian, popular, old, domestic, century, cheap, sentimental, pure, fashioned, gothic, more...
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