melancholy
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈmɛlənˌkɑli/
- On rainy days, he often experiences a deep melancholy that makes him want to stay indoors and think.
- melancholy and mourning
- trope of melancholy
- era of melancholy
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Watch on YouTubeBut like, I feel, I feel, you know, I feel a melancholy talking about it.
- But like, I feel, I feel, you know, I feel a melancholy talking about it.
- And these many sequences are grief sequences that can culminate into a melancholy that trails you in your life.
- Now he thinks that melancholy, like you said, is the most legitimate of the poetic tones.
- I'm just like, I can, I'm, I am in such a state of like paranoid melancholy right now.
- And if you look at psychology, psychology makes right now, it makes no distinction between melancholy and depression.
- So I think that part of part of it is putting it on a level with lots of other things in your life that you may have a sense of melancholy for.
- But like the bar makes the melancholy somehow like rich and beautiful and like it's you feel heard in the silence.
- You hear that talent and that voice and that melancholy and that aching and that strength.
Examples
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But she is still haunted by a profound melancholy.
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Intimate epistles with a tinge of melancholy and regret for what was lost.
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We tend to think about melancholy as somebody being just sad, being blue.
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Keep a sense of melancholy.
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The gray of the sky seems to turn melancholy with the memory.
Fiction book (1990) -
Madame has moments of melancholy.
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There's a melancholy to his words.
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A responsibility that filled him with melancholy and a certain apprehensive desire.
Fiction book (1995) -
Are you one of those people that finds solace, that finds comfort in things like rainy days or melancholy music?
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Every track on the album brimmed with unrelenting melancholy and sadness.
Synonyms
410
2.1
Deep sadness after you lose someone or something important
285
2.8
A feeling of great unhappiness and suffering
228
1.0
A feeling of being unhappy
76
3.7
A deep feeling of sadness and loss of interest in life
49
3.2
A feeling of sadness and low spirits
10
8.0
A sad heavy feeling that hangs over a place
6
3.7
A very strong feeling of sadness after a great loss
4
9.1
A deep lasting feeling of sadness without a clear reason
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8.3
A strong feeling of sadness and loss of hope after something bad
1
6.5
A serious, sad mood that feels quiet and heavy
1
3.4
A feeling of sadness and little hope felt by people or in a place
1
9.9
A deep feeling of sadness and quiet sorrow
1
9.9
A deep sadness about the suffering and unfairness in the world
1
5.8
A time when someone feels sad and without energy
1
6.5
A deep, quiet feeling or look of sadness
1
6.6
A quiet feeling of sadness and low spirits
1
6.5
A feeling of sadness and no hope
1
7.9
A deep, quiet mood of sadness or serious thought
1
7.4
A feeling of being sad or low
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6.3
A deep feeling of sadness about a loss
A feeling of deep sadness and loss
A feeling of being sad and having little hope
Antonyms
Compounds
A plant from northern Europe with long pointed leaves and one reddish-purple flower head
How Sad
Surface Forms
Etymology
Melancholy now means a deep, long sadness. The word comes from Greek melas 'black' and chole 'bile', since people once believed that having too much 'black bile' made you gloomy, which is why the word means deep sadness today.