Melodramatic vs Melodramatize - What's the difference?
melodramatic | melodramatize |
Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.
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To make melodramatic.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=January 14, author=James Traub, title=Does Abe Foxman Have an Anti-Anti-Semite Problem?, work=New York Times
, passage=It’s tempting to compare Abe Foxman with Al Sharpton , another portly, bellicose, melodramatizing defender of ethnic ramparts. }}
As an adjective melodramatic
is of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.As a verb melodramatize is
to make melodramatic.melodramatic
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Adjective
(en adjective)- She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
melodramatize
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Verb
(melodramatiz)citation