mel‧o‧dra‧ma /ˈmelədrɑːmə $ -drɑːmə, -dræmə/ noun [uncountable and countable]
[Date: 1800-1900; Language: French; Origin: mélodrame, from Greek melos ( ⇒ melody) + French drame 'drama']

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.

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.

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