melancholy
noun, plural mel·an·chol·ies.
- the condition of having too much black bile, considered in ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominess and depression.
- black bile.
adjective
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pensive, somber, gloomy, wistful, trite, mournful, sorrowful, grim, gloom, desperation, sorrow, despondency, grief, despair, boredom, ennui, wistfulness, blue, downbeat, downcastExamples from the Web for melancholy
Contemporary Examples of melancholy
I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.
In the first chapter, rebellious Holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.
David Mitchell’s ‘The Bone Clocks’ Is Fun But Mostly Empty CaloriesWilliam O’Connor
September 14, 2014
The slurring of relationships and transactions has effects ranging from the gruesome to the melancholy.
Young and gracious faces, somewhat remote and proud, but with a melancholy and sweet kindness.
The Real Memorial Day: Oliver Wendell Holmes's Salute To A Momentous American AnniversaryMalcolm Jones
May 26, 2014
You know, Ack, the melancholy of it all is that we grew up there.
War Nostalgia Is Leading Veterans to Places Like Syria. One Went Missing There.Elliot Ackerman
May 3, 2014
Historical Examples of melancholy
If he be proved culpable in this most melancholy business, and, alas!
She pitied herself,—that lowest ebb of melancholy self-consciousness.
MalboneThomas Wentworth Higginson
"Trouble him not," murmured the melancholy man, with gentleness.
The Christmas Banquet (From "Mosses From An Old Manse")Nathaniel Hawthorne
If the boys had not appeared we might now be weeping in a melancholy row.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
And that was to Andrew the most melancholy sound in the world.
Way of the LawlessMax Brand