What is the difference between Melodramatic and Overdramatic?

The difference between melodramatic and overdramatic

is that "melodramatic" is of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action and "overdramatic" is dramatic to excess.

melodramatic

overdramatic

Adjective

  • Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
  • Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental.

Related terms

  • melodramatics

Exemple

  • She wrote him a melodramatic letter, threatening to kill herself.
  • Dearest Eloise,— There is one little and perhaps insignificant French cake, which I feel certain would soon become a favourite in the cottage, more particularly amongst its juvenile inhabitants. It is the famed galette, the melodramatic food of the gamins, galopins, mechanics, and semi-artists of France.

Adjective

  • Dramatic to excess.

Synonyms

  • histrionic