Word Finder - melancholy

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Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

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Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

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Affected with great sadness or depression.

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Melancholy people don't talk much.

He was cold, haughty, melancholy and dull.

He had many melancholy reflections of his old school days.

The melancholy silence that followed was broken by the sounds of the children's voices and laughter from the next room.

Melancholy descended over her with the rain.

In the film two of the characters don't achieve their aims.That makes the film rather melancholy, although it's basically a romantic story.

There was a melancholy mood by the river.

Oddly, the sound seemed more melancholy than menacing.

His nature was timid, lethargic and melancholy, and his court was not marked by the scandals which had been seen under Henry IV.

His over-emotional nature passed rapidly from one phase of feeling to another; but the more melancholy moods predominated.

My face grew grave, and Agatha became melancholy.

The Phrygian mythology, so far as we know it, has a melancholy and mystic tone, and their religion partakes of the same character.

He is very melancholy with Mademoiselle Karagina, said Pierre.

Feelings of sadness or melancholy may come out of nowhere and consume her.

It was a melancholy end to what might have been a singularly brilliant career.

The reprise at the end captures melancholy in an instant.

A beautifully designed work, it 's a tender film suffused with melancholy.

The remaining story of Lamartine's life is somewhat melancholy.

Ferdinand was by temperament melancholy, shy and distrustful of his own abilities.

The king, reckless as he was, had more than his share of the Stuart melancholy.

After his two years in the French galleys, if not before, Knox suffered permanently from gravel and dyspepsia, and he confesses that his nature "was for the most part oppressed with melancholy."

Wearied by his melancholy isolation, he was driven to seek a return to the Jewish communion.

The ensuing period was a melancholy one.

It was supposed in olden times to be the seat of ill-humour and melancholy, whence such phrases as "to have the spleen," to be out of temper, sulky, morose, "splenetic."

In his later years, however, he fell into a mood of settled melancholy; and, though still accessible to all who chose to approach him with complaints or petitions, he withdrew from all but the most essential social functions, and lived a life of strenuous work and of Spartan simplicity.

The feeling of melancholy and loss associated with tango was epitomized in 1917 by Carlos Gardel in Mi Noche Triste In 1921, tango first hit the silver screen danced by Hollywood star Rudolph Valentino.

The man in the song is letting go and is apparently allowing himself to fall in love without reservation - it's a love song with an edgy melody and melancholy touch.

Shooting and music were his only pleasures, and he was the generous patron of the famous singer Farinelli, whose voice soothed his melancholy.

She took his hand but didn't look at him, the odd melancholy stirring his instincts once more.

She sensed Evelyn's sudden melancholy and tried to focus.

If she picked, it would be something melancholy, and in his opinion, that was the last thing she needed now.

The most melancholy spectacle of all to my mind was, that the bridegroom was decidedly tipsy.

Wise and generally melancholy reflections on human nature and political society are not infrequent in his writings, and they arise naturally and incidentally out of the subject he is discussing.

Meanwhile charred and rotting stumps give a melancholy and untidy air to valleys and denuded hillsides, for hard-wood stumps - and most New Zealand trees are hard-woodtake more than a generation to decay utterly.

His commanding stature, the symmetry of his form, the dark and melancholy beauty of his countenance, rather rendered piquant than impaired by an obliquity of vision, produced an imposing impression even before his deep and powerful voice had given utterance to its melodious thunders; and harsh and superficial half-truths enunciated with surpassing ease and grace of gesture, and not only with an air of absolute conviction but with the authority of a prophetic messenger, in tones whose magical fascination was inspired by an earnestness beyond all imitation of art, acquired a plausibility and importance which, at least while the orator spoke, made his audience entirely forgetful of their preconceived objections against them.

Probably the true statement of Hume's attitude regarding the problem is the somewhat melancholy utterance with which the Dialogues close.

The best work of the Belgian romanticists is in the rich and picturesque prose of the 16th century romance of Charles de Coster (see DE Coster), and in the melancholy and semi-philosophical writings of the moralist Octave Pirmez.

Their mythology so far as we know it, has a melancholy and mystic tone, and their religion partakes of the same character.

The kingdom was in the desperate state described in the last melancholy pages of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, when life and property were nowhere safe from the objectless ferocity of feudal tyrants when every shire was full of castles and every castle filled with devils and evil men, and the people murmured that Christ and his saints slept.

Feuillet, however, having still further declined, he summoned his son to leave Paris and bury himself as his constant attendant in the melancholy château at Saint-LO.

The caliph wished you to amuse him with pleasant thoughts, and you have filled his mind with melancholy.

To please Moscow girls nowadays one has to be melancholy.

We wanted something retro, and quite melancholy... There 's a real Englishness about that song, too.

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya - Haruhi Suzumiya is a Japanese high school student interested in the unusual, but she might be the most unusual one of all.

A fan favorite thanks to Internet buzz, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is available on DVD.

The elements of air and fire pose too great a threat to Capricorn's stability, and so the grounded nature of earth and the melancholy and soothing nature of water help nurture Capricorn and pacify his anxieties.

This depth, when combined with a propensity for melancholy though processes, can create a very depressing partner.

Those who returned involuntarily often exhibit signs of depression, sadness and melancholy.

For every drawn out, melancholy symphony, they also had a catchy, almost cute song to go with it.

This beautiful song is tinged with sweetness and melancholy and contrasts the inevitable danger a child will face in this world and the safety of a mother's arms.

Elisabeth could hear the music playing; it sounded dark and melancholy.