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melancholy

Someone who is melancholy is very sad. Something that is melancholy makes you feel very sad. The news was very melancholy, all about people dying and losing their jobs.

melancholy

a feeling of thoughtful sadness (= melancholic) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness growing more melancholy every hour her melancholic smile we acquainted him with the melancholy truth 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 (= somber, sombre) grave or even gloomy in character solemn and mournful music a suit of somber black a somber mood

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Simple sentences

Hence, loathed melancholy.
Her words were filled with melancholy.
From early morning I had been oppressed by a strange melancholy.
This music has something in itself, which fills my heart with sweet melancholy.
The king was prone to melancholy and boredom.
Tom was prone to melancholy.
We sensed a melancholy note in his voice.
It's a unique device able to make stress and melancholy vanish.
Melancholy is for crazies and morons, that's what alcohol and women are for.
In winter, I often suffer from melancholy.
Tom can't tell the difference between melancholy and depression.

Movie subtitles

Thank you, my cousin, for this deliciously melancholy concert.
A crew on a long voyage may easily fall into melancholy and violence.
He's now at the bottom of the wave: depressed, melancholy.
What you probably feel is the melancholy of happiness that mood that comes over all of us when we realize that even love can't remain at flood tide forever.
Lady Margaret, I have melancholy news for you.
Last night he seemed inclined to melancholy.
Beyond the banks are the melancholy facades of country houses where someone's always looking out at the river.
There's an expression of melancholy in his face, my dear, which is very interesting.
First, if Your Grace will pardon the liberty I should like to read some verses composed by myself for use on these melancholy occasions.
What caused this melancholy?
A melancholy song to make yourself think you're a man of deep thoughts.
Madame has moments of melancholy.
A strange, melancholy joy takes over my entire being.
And I'd stand listening, excited and melancholy.
Below here, they are extremely depressed, melancholy, impossible to live with and often become violent.
Depressed, melancholy.
Why be melancholy When we got Swingali?
Your grandson. Last night he seemed inclined to melancholy.
This proud melancholy of language.
Into this unique gathering came their melancholy housekeeper, Mrs. Monteith bearing a message for Ralph King, a retired barrister.
I should like to read some verses composed by myself for use on these melancholy occasions.
And in the elegant melancholy of twilight, as the candles flutter and make your eyes dance, he will tell you he loves you.
And in the elegant melancholy of twilight, he will tell you he loves you.
There is something sad and melancholy about trips.
The future is unknown. The past is melancholy.
I have in me this old, melancholy streak, that makes me shed tears of blood and desesperation about the human condition.
For a few days, your eyes were sad and melancholy, and then what?
Oh, then began the tempest to my soul. I crossed, methought, the melancholy flood. with that grim ferryman that poets write of. into the kingdom of perpetual night.
Ah, the weary way hath made you melancholy.
Saw you the melancholy Lord Northumberland?
The Rachel, who in her long melancholy search. for her missing children found. another orphan.
The police don't respond to melancholy looks.
Why so melancholy?
It's a place that inspires daydreaming. And melancholy, as well.
Some melancholy burglars give back their loot.
The scream grew more and more remote and I realized the melancholy fact that neither tomorrow nor Friday nor any other day or night could I make myself put her to death.
And Bellerophon became melancholy.

News and current affairs

Games between Holland and Germany, for example, or Germany and Poland, tended, until very recently, to be reenactments of the war; either - and most commonly - as melancholy replays of wartime defeat, or as sweet revenge.
This may transform what was once seen as an ordinary human variation - being shy, uptight, or melancholy - into a psychiatric problem.
What we call schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are recognizable in literature dating back to ancient Greece, and The Anatomy of Melancholy, published in 1621 by the English scholar Robert Burton, remains one of the most astute descriptions of depression.

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