melancholy

[US]/'melənkəlɪ/
[UK]/'mɛlənkɑli/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. sorrow, sadness
adj. sad, sorrowful

Phrases & Collocations

Suffering from melancholy

Example Sentences

What a melancholy night.

a strain of melancholy;

a dark, melancholy vocal tone.

the melancholy that haunts the composer's music.

the dog has a melancholy expression.

a letter with some melancholy news.

He has a strain of melancholy in him.

the study makes melancholy if instructive reading.

I could feed my melancholy by reading Romantic poetry.

He is a complicated man ——moody, mercurical, with a melancholy streek.

The patient's face, though it was melancholy, brightened at the arrival of the guests.

He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.

Serena's mysterious ways bedazzle most mortals.She exudes an air of melancholy, which is intoxicating to Elven kind looking to the past for deliverance.

The aftersound of Green Sleeves,telling a miserable story, is ringing around,so melancholy and blue.

This 2006 net women's single champion just in exuded in the Pacific Ocean public competition to encounter Safenna to sweep away, somewhat melancholy she is hoping in the net rewin dignity.

I this "instant" era ,coffee bring us the fragrant flavor ,but more important ,it gives us a sense .It is like melancholy literature works ,like the spring tree in the village 、the kwela in Milan ;

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