overdramatic

adjective

over·​dra·​mat·​ic ˌō-vər-drə-ˈma-tik How to pronounce overdramatic (audio)
: excessively dramatic : melodramatic
true crime shows, complete with overdramatic narrators …Lauren Zupkus
… [scammers] will post links with shocking or overdramatic headlines …Kirstin Davis
… I was told that there was nothing wrong, everyone was dealing with the same thing, and I was just being overdramatic.Ellen Scott
overdramatically adverb
crying overdramatically
read from the script overdramatically

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So here’s a toast to the lucky couple, forever overdramatic and true. Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 27 Aug. 2025 Cleveland dominated the headlines shortly after the season ended thanks to the overdramatic and highly public contract dispute between the team and star pass-rusher Myles Garrett. Michael Gallagher, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Aug. 2025 Is Huda self-absorbed, overdramatic, extremely volatile, overly obsessed with traditional gender roles, and impossible to please? Shannon Keating, Vulture, 19 June 2025 Cutting-edge visual effects create a world of talking photorealistic animals that might as well be a nature documentary, and attention is paid to livening up the humor, with Billy Eichner’s funny, overdramatic meerkat Timon showing up everybody, including Beyoncé. 9. Brian Truitt, USA Today, 26 May 2025 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

Word History

First Known Use

1861, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of overdramatic was in 1861

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“Overdramatic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overdramatic. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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