mélancolique

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Translation

adj.feeling or expressing pensive sadness; melancholic; characterized by or causing a feeling of pensive sadness; having a gloomy, sad, or pensive temperament
n.a person who is habitually melancholic or prone to pensive sadness; (historical) a person of melancholic temperament, one of the four temperaments in medieval physiology

Phrases & Collocations

mélancoliques

très mélancolique

toujours mélancolique

si mélancolique

mood mélancolique

feels mélancolique

so mélancolique

quite mélancolique

feeling mélancolique

Example Sentences

the mélancholique melody echoed through the empty halls.

she wore a mélancholique expression on her face.

the autumn rain created a mélancholique atmosphere.

he wrote a mélancholique song about lost love.

the old photograph filled her with a mélancholique feeling.

the winter landscape had a certain mélancholique beauty.

their parting was bittersweet and almost mélancholique.

the novel ends with a deeply mélancholique tone.

there was something uniquely mélancholique about that piano piece.

the sunset over the ocean left us in a mélancholique mood.

he tends to be rather mélancholique in his philosophical writings.

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