Definition of "melodramatist" []

• A writer of melodramas. (noun)
• An actor in melodramas. (noun)
• A melodramatic person. (noun)

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• "But everyone said, “Come on, you are such a melodramatist.”"
• "He is a melodramatist who never penetrates below the surface."
• "His success as a melodramatist may have been responsible for an occasional, unhelpful reliance on artifice, and for certain antiquated strains in the structure of books such as The Siege of Pleasure and Hangover Square."