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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.
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. Word Origin. Definitions on the go.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Definitions of 'melancholy' You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness. [...] More. Pronunciations of 'melancholy' American English: mɛlənkɒli British English: melənkɒli. More. Synonyms of 'melancholy' • sad, down, depressed, unhappy [...] • sadness, depression, misery, gloom [...]
What does the noun melancholy mean? There are nine meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun melancholy, two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence. melancholy has developed meanings and uses in subjects including.
