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
He himself was full of vague latter-day glooms and popular melancholies, and it was a refreshing sensation to behold this young thing then and there, absolutely as happy as if she were in a Paradise.
From Life's Little Ironies by Thomas Hardy
And 'Syngenesia,' the last of the melancholies; with the 'Knight of the Snorting Palfrey; or, the Silken Fetlock.'
From Forgotten Tales of Long Ago by F. D. Bedford
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
