EXAGGERATEif you behave in a melodramatic way, you become more angry or upset than is really necessary 又哭又闹的,胡闹的;夸张的;感情用事的
Stop being so melodramatic!
别再这么胡闹了!
—melodramatically /-kli/adverbadv
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melodramatic• His only savinggrace is his undyingbelief in the melodramatic.• He was associated with a heavy, melodramatic, and often sentimental style of acting.• The script is terrible, the acting by turns melodramatic and wooden, the directionconfused.• It sounds melodramatic, but I felt like someone was watching me.• Of course, on reflection, Deborah didn't really think it was that melodramatic either.• What was this melodramaticgesture of Jake's all about?• a melodramaticmusicalscore• a melodramatic play• The stories had the melodramaticplot lines of comic books or soapoperas.• He boomed out, slipping in all the glottal stops and nasal sobs of an appallingly melodramatictenor.• There is an eerily Victorianpostscript to this unhappytale, almost too melodramatic to be true.