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Word Meanings - MELODRAMATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

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  • CEREMONIOUSLY
    In a ceremonious way.
  • GESTICULATORY
    Representing by, or belonging to, gestures. T. Warton.
  • POMPOUS
    1. Displaying pomp; stately; showy with grandeur; magnificent; as, a pompous procession. 2. Ostentatious; pretentious; boastful; vainlorious; as, pompous manners; a pompous style. "Pompous in high presumption." Chaucer. he pompous vanity of the
  • MERETRICIOUS
    prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i. e., by prostitution, fr. 1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic. 2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully
  • THEATRICAL
    Of or pertaining to a theater, or to the scenic representations; resembling the manner of dramatic performers; histrionic; hence, artificial; as, theatrical performances; theatrical gestures. -- The*at`ri*cal"i*ty, n. -- The*at"ric*al*ly, adv. No
  • CEREMONIOUSNESS
    The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious.
  • DRAMATIC; DRAMATICAL
    Of or pertaining to the drama; appropriate to, or having the qualities of, a drama; theatrical; vivid. The emperor . . . performed his part with much dramatic effect. Motley.
  • THEATRICALS
    Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.
  • TINSEL
    1. A shining material used for ornamental purposes; especially, a very thin, gauzelike cloth with much gold or silver woven into it; also, very thin metal overlaid with a thin coating of gold or silver, brass foil, or the like. Who can discern
  • CEREMONIOUS
    1. Consisting of outward forms and rites; ceremonial. Note: The ceremonious part of His worship. South. 2. According to prescribed or customary rules and forms; devoted to forms and ceremonies; formally respectful; punctilious. "Ceremonious
  • DRAMATICALLY
    In a dramatic manner; theatrically; vividly.
  • MELODRAMATIC
    Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action. -- Mel`o*dra*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
  • TINSELLY
    Like tinsel; gaudy; showy, but cheap.
  • SHOWY
    , a. Etym:
  • AMPHITHEATRICALLY
    In the form or manner of an amphitheater.
  • AMPHITHEATRIC; AMPHITHEATRICAL
    Of, pertaining to, exhibited in, or resembling, an amphitheater.
  • MONODRAMATIC
    Pertaining to a monodrama.

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