melodrama /melˈō-drä-mə or -dräˈmə/, also (now rare) melodrame /-dräm/

1. A kind of romantic and sensational drama, crude, sentimental, and conventional, involving poetic justice and happy endings
2. A film or play that is excessively sensational, emotional, etc
3. A play with musical accompaniment to the action and spoken dialogue, with or without songs (obsolete)
4. Excessively dramatic behaviour

melodramatˈic /-drə-matˈik/ adjective

1. Of the nature of melodrama
2. Overstrained
3. Sensational

melodramatˈically adverb

melodramatˈics plural noun

Melodramatic behaviour

• balloonists
• balloons
• balloon tyre
• balloon tyres
• balloon-vine
• balloon-vines
• balloon whisk
• balloon whisks
• ballot
• ballot box
• ballot boxes
• balloted
• ballotee
• ballotees
• balloting
• ballot paper
• ballot papers
• ballot-rigging
• ballots
• ballow
• ballows
• ball park
• ballpark
• ball parks
• ballpeen hammer