Extreme
Extreme adjective - Most distant from a center.
Melodramatic and extreme are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Melodramatic" instead an adjective "Extreme".
Melodramatic
Melodramatic adjective - Given to or marked by attention-getting behavior suggestive of stage acting.
Extreme and melodramatic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Extreme" instead an adjective "Melodramatic".
Nearby Word: melodrama
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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But once the show kept getting more extreme and melodramatic, they dropped it.
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If that doesn't sound melodramatic enough, there's always plenty of hellish happenings throughout every movie, enough to drive the angst to the extreme.
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Extreme Graphical Representation: Parodied when DC Asap Qureshi shows Jack and Anne a ridiculously graphical supercomputer hologram display in the computer lab, which he describes as "the most melodramatic operating system in the world".
Source: Series / A Touch of Cloth
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