melancholy

[MelĀ·an*chol*y]

Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits.

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Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Noun
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Noun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness

Noun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Adjective S.
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"


n.
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

n.
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

n.
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

n.
Ill nature.

a.
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

a.
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

a.
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

a.
Favorable to meditation; somber.


Melancholy

Mel"an*chol*y , n. [OE. melancolie, F. m'82lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ; , -, black + gall, bile. See Malice, and 1st Gall.] 1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak. 2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. 3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail, divinest Melancholy !" Milton. 4. Ill nature. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Melancholy

Mel"an*chol*y, a. 1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak. 2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. 3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds. 4. Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted; unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful; dismal; calamitous; afflictive.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

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Usage Examples

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

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Other Usage Examples

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring but with the more subdued spirit of autumn?

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