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   melancholy

   /ˈmɛlənk(ə)li/

   noun

   • 1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause: "an air of melancholy surrounded him"
   • ▪ another term for melancholia (as a mental condition)
   • ▪ another term for black bile

   adjective

   • 1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive: "she felt a little melancholy"
   • ▪ causing or expressing sadness; depressing: "the melancholy tone of her writing"

   Word Origin Middle English: from Old French melancolie, via late Latin from Greek melankholia, from melas, melan- ‘black’ + kholē ‘bile’, an excess of which was formerly believed to cause depression.

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   What is a mood of melancholy?

   • a feeling of being very sad that lasts for a long time and often cannot be explained A mood of melancholy descended on us. There is a brooding melancholy in his black and white photography. Want to learn more? Definition of melancholy noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   What does melancholy mean?

   • The meaning of MELANCHOLY is depression of spirits : dejection. How to use melancholy in a sentence.

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   What does melancholy mean in a poem?

   • Melancholy is a term or English vocabulary that is used to describe the feeling or emotions that are characterized with pensive sadness, typically with no apparent cause. Thus, when the author uses phrases like darker aspect," " beetle-browed ," " gloomy ," and " ponderous ," he is trying to create a sad mood or sad atmosphere of the place.

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   Where does the word melancholic come from?

   • From Latin melancholicus, from Ancient Greek μελαγχολικός (melankholikós, “atrabilious, impulsive, of atrabilious or melancholic temperament”), from μελαγχολία (melankholía, “melancholy”). By surface analysis, melancholy + -ic . melancholic ( comparative more melancholic, superlative most melancholic)

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   How do you describe something that you see or hear as melancholy?

   • You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness. ...a painter of haunting melancholy canvases. The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep. The songs start soft and melancholy.

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   What is a melancholy lesson of advancing years?

   • One white arm and hand drooped over the side of the chair, and her whole pose and figure spoke of an absorbing melancholy. Arthur Conan Doyle Noun the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy Adjective A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can't make old friends.

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   Melancholy is an adjective that means feeling or expressing sadness, or a noun that means sadness that lasts for a long time. Learn more about the word, its pronunciation, and related words and phrases in English and other languages.

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   Melancholy is a noun or adjective that means sadness or depression of mind or spirit. It comes from the Latin word melancholia, which means black bile, an ancient theory of mood disorders.

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   Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness or a state of mind that causes it. It can also refer to a humour or bile that was thought to cause gloominess in ancient medicine. Learn more about the word origin, usage, and synonyms of melancholy.

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   affected with, characterized by, or showing melancholy; mournful; depressed: a melancholy mood. Synonyms: downcast, glum, doleful, dismal, dispirited, blue, despondent, gloomy, sorrowful. causing melancholy or sadness; saddening: a melancholy occasion. Antonyms: happy. soberly thoughtful; pensive.

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   Being melancholy means that you're overcome in sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. The word started off as a noun for deep sadness, from a rather disgusting source.

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   Melancholy is a noun that means a feeling of being very sad that lasts for a long time and often cannot be explained. Learn how to use this word in sentences, synonyms, and word origin with Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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    Melancholy is a feeling of sadness, gloom, or pensive reflection. It can also refer to a humor or a bodily fluid that was once thought to cause depression. Find more meanings, examples, and related words for melancholy.