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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: affectedly dramatic; overacted

Merriam Webster's

adjective (hammier; -est) Date: 1929 marked by exaggerated and usually self-conscious theatricality • hammily adverb • hamminess noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (hammier, hammiest) 1 of or like ham. 2 colloq. (of an actor or acting) over-theatrical.

Moby Thesaurus

actor-proof, all-star, ballet, balletic, cinematic, cinematographic, dramatic, dramatical, dramaturgic, emotionalistic, emotive, film, filmic, ham, histrionic, hysteric, legitimate, melodramatic, milked, monodramatic, movie, nonrational, operatic, overacted, overemotional, overplayed, scenic, sensational, sensationalistic, spectacular, stagelike, stageworthy, stagy, starstruck, stellar, theaterlike, theatrical, thespian, thrown away, underacted, underplayed, unreasoning, vaudevillian