melancholy
noun
a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
melancholies
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pluralof melancholy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The pains, regrets and melancholies of the adult characters mingle with the fresher but no less complex experiences of the teenagers getting a taste of love, death and fellowship for the first time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Says Faber Birren, 82, the dean of American color researchers: "Color distracts you from yourself and relieves you of inner anxieties, melancholies and fears."
From Time Magazine Archive
In fact, it was a pretty place; and I felt such "dispositions to melancholies," as Sir Hugh Evans would have it, that I half resented Mr. S.'s suggestion that the cars were waiting.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
But this consciousness may be complete in certain melancholies and very incomplete in certain impulsions.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
But," he adds, "for two months the Queen has been divers times in great melancholies.
From Mary Queen of Scots 1542-1587 by Various
