melodrama has definitions from the fields of theater,writing
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[ noun ] (theater,writing) an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

The_Breeze_And_Chancellor_Neitzbohr , a movie melodrama that concerns the attempts of a West German politician to woo a plaster_cast of the Apollo_Belvedere .

Related terms

comedy

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