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A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
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melancholy
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "with or caused by black bile; sullen, gloomy, sad," from melancholy (n.); sense of "deplorable" (of a fact or state of things) is from 1710.
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Melancholy , original title Melancholia I , is a 1995 novel by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse . It is about the Norwegian painter Lars Hertervig (1830–1902) and his time as a young student in Düsseldorf , where he, agonised by unrequited love and doubt ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a secretive, melancholy man ▪ the melancholy tone of the poem EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement. ▪ For six weeks ...
Usage examples of melancholy.
Noble grief there is in him, and noble melancholy can come upon him, but acquiescence is his last word.
And, worse, she had betrayed most melancholy signs of sourness and agedness as soon as he had sworn himself to her fast and fixed.
Fathom, believing that now was the season for working upon her passions, while they were all in commotion, became, if possible, more assiduous than ever about the fair mourner, modelled his features into a melancholy cast, pretended to share her distress with the most emphatic sympathy, and endeavoured to keep her resentment glowing by cunning insinuations, which, though apparently designed to apologise for his friend, served only to aggravate the guilt of his perfidy and dishonour.
He spotted three men in lederhosen lean over to blow on alpenhorns, sending their melancholy mooing out over the valley.
The eyes were dark but vacant, and the face had no other expression than that look of apathetic melancholy which one sometimes sees on the faces of captive beasts.
Its fresh root is bitter, and a milky juice flows from the rind, which is somewhat aperient and slightly sedative, so that this specially suits persons troubled with bilious torpor, and jaundice combined with melancholy.
With a kind of tolerant pity, she lifted the aspidistras from their containing pots and gathered them into a melancholy little group on the floor, together with a repellent little cactus like an over-stuffed pincushion and a young rubber-plant.
This most ludicrous exhibition of the aweful, melancholy, and venerable Johnson, happened well to counteract the feelings of sadness which I used to experience when parting with him for a considerable time.
You may judge how melancholy our position would have been if we had been beaten by Rommel, and if the Caucasus, the Baku oil-wells, and Persia had been overrun by the enemy.
The Baptist smiled, but his face bore the same trace of melancholy which John had noted as they trekked up the mountainside.
My dear Dubois, who began to love me because I made her happy, felt my melancholy react on herself, and tried to make me talk.
However, the situation assumed a melancholy aspect, for the poor girl began to weep bitterly.
Everybody was melancholy, and seeing that I was the cause I began to talk about England, where I hoped to make my fortune with a project of mine, the success of which only depended on Lord Egremont.
As I was leaving I begged the future Madame Lebel to return me the ring I had given her, and as we had agreed, I presented her with a roll of a hundred Louis, which she took with a melancholy air.
The Anatomy of Melancholy always made him hungry, and he dipped discreetly into various vessels of refreshment, sharing a few scraps with Bock whose pleading brown eye at these secret suppers always showed a comical realization of their shameful and furtive nature.