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melancholy::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | melancholic |
growing more melancholy every hour.
we acquainted him with the melancholy truth.
melancholy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Synonyms | black bile |
| Type of | bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance |
melancholy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
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| Type of | depression |
melancholy::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | unhappiness, sadness |
| Has types | world-weariness, gloominess, somberness, brooding, gloom, pensiveness, heavyheartedness, sombreness, weltschmerz |
Examples of melancholy
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Friends get a bit melancholy, too, when they talk about where they used to live.
From the news-journalonline.com
There is real melancholy in his demeanour when he describes them drifting apart.
From the guardian.co.uk
Should I really be feeling the melancholy for this decline of an old art medium?
From the avc.com
To this man Mickey Rourke brings a melancholy dignity and a singular resilience.
From the thenewstribune.com
In turns, her face tightens in anger and pain and relaxes in a melancholy smile.
From the lohud.com
Her chronic melancholy, however, does not overwhelm the rapture of her melodies.
From the time.com
Superbly poised between the magic of innocence and the melancholy of experience.
From the economist.com
In Freud's lost portrait Bacon is modest, sensitive, eyes lowered in melancholy.
From the guardian.co.uk
The ebb of power is melancholy reality, the days of glory meticulously numbered.
From the time.com
- A feeling of thoughtful sadness
- Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
- A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- Somber: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
- Black bile: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
- Melancholy may refer to:
- Melancholy is a live album by Cecil Taylor's Workshop Ensemble featuring Evan Parker, Barry Guy and Tony Oxley recorded on September 30, 1990 at the Bechstein Concert Hall in Berlin and released on the FMP label.
- Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies; Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature; Affected with great sadness or depression
- To dream that you feel melancholy over any event, is a sign of disappointment in what was thought to be favorable undertakings. To dream that you see others melancholy, denotes unpleasant interruption in affairs. To lovers, it brings separation.
