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- Dictionarymelancholy/ˈmɛlənk(ə)li/
noun
- 1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause: "an air of melancholy surrounded him"
adjective
- 1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive: "she felt a little melancholy"
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MELANCHOLY definition: 1. sad: 2. sadness that lasts for a long period of time, often without any obvious reason 3. sad: . Learn more.
1. a. : depression of spirits : dejection. great outbursts of creativity alternate with feelings of extreme melancholy Brenda Lane Richardson. Mitchell sounds utterly alone in her melancholy, turning the sadness into tender art. Rolling Stone. b. : a pensive mood. a fine romantic kind of a melancholy on the fading of the year Richard Holmes.
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.
adjective. 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. Synonyms: serious. melancholy.
If someone feels or looks melancholy, they feel or look very sad. [literary] It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy. He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile. Synonyms: sad, down, depressed, unhappy More Synonyms of melancholy.
melancholy. noun. /ˈmelənkəli/, /ˈmelənkɒli/. /ˈmelənkɑːli/. [uncountable] (literary) 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. Topics Feelings c2.
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected. See Synonyms at sad. 2. Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom: a letter with some melancholy news. 3. Pensive; thoughtful.
melancholy. noun [ U ] formal. a feeling of sadness. (Definition of melancholy from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
adjective. 1. Medicine. 1.a. a1393–. Affected with or constitutionally liable to melancholy as a medical condition; accompanying melancholy. Now archaic and historical. a1393. Of therthe, which is cold and drye, The kind of man Malencolie Is cleped. J. Gower, Confessio Amantis (Fairfax MS.) vii. 402. a1425.
4 days ago · melancholy ( countable and uncountable, plural melancholies) ( historical) 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.
