Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

melodramatically

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.57 in modern English

Syllables
melo-dra-mat-i-cal-ly
IPA
26
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a melodramatic manner.

Etymology

Etymology tree English melodramatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English melodramatically From melodramatic + -ally.

Inflected Forms

more melodramatically (comparative) most melodramatically (superlative)

Questions

What does melodramatically mean?
In a melodramatic manner.
Where does melodramatically come from?
Etymology tree English melodramatic Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al Middle English -ly Middle English -ally English -ally English melodramatically From melodramatic + -ally.

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