OVERDRAMATIC Synonyms: 47 Similar and Opposite Words

overdramatic

adjective

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Recent Examples of overdramatic His characterization of your openness to weekly visits — a perfectly reasonable concession — as a rejection of his family is unfair and overdramatic. —

Philip Galanes, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025 An able cast including Amit Sial, Rajesh Khera, Brajesh Jha, Mrinal Dutt, and Ankita Lokhande uplifts a film that often becomes overdramatic and choppy. 2. —

Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 Okay, that’s probably a bit overdramatic, but the 27-year-old model did break a yearly fall beauty tradition. —

Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 29 Sep. 2024 Instead, as Girlie (ugh) and Clark settle into their ride — much of it set to a bracingly overdramatic score from Dickon Hinchcliffe, all of it impressively designed to fit inside Clark’s beat up cab — the two start to test each other. —

Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 26 June 2024 Their economic status grants them permission to carry out overdramatic displays of emotion, to perform self-victimization and, eventually, to exonerate themselves for their crimes. —

Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 2 Feb. 2024 In Miss Manners’ estimation, your mistake is two-fold: caring that much about your mother-in-law’s overdramatic errand announcement, and then trying to validate your hurt feelings through social media. —

Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 16 June 2023 In Miss Manners’ estimation, your mistake is twofold: caring that much about your mother-in-law’s overdramatic errand announcement, and then trying to validate your hurt feelings through social media. —

Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 16 June 2023 Every holiday was super overdramatic. —

Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 5 Aug. 2022

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdramatic

Adjective

Her over-the-top cockney accent speaking in melodramatic dialogue drives much of the comedy in her performance, which ultimately wears thin over the course of the film’s brief runtime.

— Vikram Murthi, IndieWire, 25 Jan. 2025
There’s a lot of melodramatic potential in this material — particularly one late-breaking narrative development that has felled many talented artists in the past.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2025