What (who) is melancholy - definition
melancholy
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Melancholy (disambiguation); Melancholy (painting)
¦ noun
1. deep and long-lasting sadness.
another term for melancholia (as a mental condition).
2. historical another term for black bile.
¦ adjective feeling, causing, or expressing sadness.
Derivatives
melancholic adjective
melancholically adverb
Origin
ME: from OFr. melancolie, via late L. from Gk melankholia, from melas, melan- 'black' + khole 'bile', an excess of which was formerly believed to cause depression.
melancholy
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Melancholy (disambiguation); Melancholy (painting)
I. n.
Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits.
II. a.
1.
Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, unhappy, disconsolate, doleful, dismal, lugubrious, moody, gloomy, hypochondriac, dumpish, mopish, glum, downcast, desponding, down-hearted, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, down in the mouth, out of sorts, lackadaisical, atrabilious, blue hippish.
2.
Calamitous, afflictive, unfortunate, unlucky.
3.
Grave, gloomy, sombre, dark, quiet, sad.
melancholy
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Melancholy (disambiguation); Melancholy (painting)
1.
You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness.
The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep...
ADJ
2.
Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes. (LITERARY)
I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If someone feels or looks melancholy, they feel or look very sad. (LITERARY)
It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy...
He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.
ADJ
Pronunciation examples for melancholy
1. and melancholy--
Fay Bound-Alberti _ A Biography of Loneliness _ Talks at Google
2. It's a melancholy comedy.
Green Room _ Anton Yelchin & Jeremy Saulnier _ Talks at Google
3. beautiful melancholy and sheer energy.
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4. is an adjective that means melancholy, Mr. Melancholy.
An Impeccable Spy - Richard Sorge, Stalin's Master Agent _ Owen Matthews _ Talks at Google
5. He would make many melancholy reflections
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Examples of use of melancholy
1. Matthew Parris I HAVE just returned from a melancholy place.
2. Not even his mother‘s merriment could lift his apparent melancholy.
3. Gilmour‘s melancholy is not to be confused with whingeing, however.
4. Flowers, tinsel and flags, incongruously cheerful, relieve the melancholy headstones.
5. Seesta Manor with its numerous outbuildings looked melancholy.