Melancholy - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
adjective
we acquainted him with the melancholy truth
Extra examples
...the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy...
She was in a melancholy mood.
He became quiet and melancholy as the hours slowly passed.
The music suited her melancholy mood.
He sank into deep melancholy.
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can't make old friends.
He has a snarled mop of spiky black hair, melancholy circles around his eyes, and a tiny Cupid's-bow mouth.
His mood of exaltation fell with a bump into the trough of melancholy.
The College buildings will be almost melancholy in their desertion and silence.
His pale face was lined with melancholy resignation.
In spite of her temperamental gaiety she had moments of intense melancholy.
Melancholy is a common attendant on poetic genius.
The College buildings will look melancholy in their desertion and silence.
Hence loathed Melancholy.../In Stygian cave forlorn
Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man
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