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    mel·an·chol·y
    [ˈmel(ə)nˌkälē]
    noun
    melancholy (noun)
    1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause:
      "an air of melancholy surrounded him" · "he had an ability to convey a sense of deep melancholy and yearning through much of his work" · "at the center of his music lies a profound melancholy and nostalgia"
    adjective
    melancholy (adjective)
    1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:
      "she felt a little melancholy" · "the dog has a melancholy expression"
      • causing or expressing sadness; depressing:
        "the study makes melancholy if instructive reading"
    Origin
    Middle English: from Old French melancolie, via late Latin from Greek melankholia, from melas, melan- ‘black’ + kholē ‘bile’, an excess of which was formerly believed to cause depression.
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    noun
    1. a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause:
      desolation
      sadness
      pensiveness
      woe
      sorrow
      melancholia
      unhappiness
      dejection
      depression
      gloom
      gloominess
      misery
      low spirits
      moroseness
      doldrums
      defeatism
      pessimism
      dispiritedness
      despondency
      dejectedness
      Opposite:
      cheerfulness
      happiness
      adjective
      1. having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:
        sad
        sorrowful
        desolate
        melancholic
        mournful
        lugubrious
        gloomy
        pensive
        despondent
        dejected
        depressed
        depressing
        down
        downhearted
        downcast
        disconsolate
        glum
        miserable
        wretched
        dismal
        dispirited
        discouraged
        low
        blue
        morose
        funereal
        woeful
        woebegone
        doleful
        wistful
        unhappy
        joyless
        heavy-hearted
        low-spirited
        somber
        defeatist
        pessimistic
        sunk in gloom
        in low spirits
        in the doldrums
        Opposite:
        cheerful
        happy

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