Synonym: blue, depressing, dismal, gloomy, pensive, sad, wistful. Antonym: cheerful, delightful, gay, happy, merry, pleasant. Similar words: homeland, anchor, lie at anchor, carte blanche, holy, inchoate, scholar, choleric. Meaning: ['melənkɑlɪ /-kəlɪ] 
n. 1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness 2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. adj. 1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness 2. grave or even gloomy in character.
n. 1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness 2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed 3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. adj. 1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness 2. grave or even gloomy in character. 
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61. Jacinto, too, describes his malaise and melancholy in speech typical of the Romantic mal du siecle.
62. In the face of the city's desperation he expressed his melancholy through his painting.
63. All that accentuated the swings of mood in a man capable of intense enjoyment but subject also to persistent melancholy.
64. The futuristic look is nicely accomplished, without a lot of eye candy: darkish, downbeat, more melancholy than despairing.
65. For those of melancholy or saturnine disposition, the means had to be found for inducing receptivity toward Jovian or solar influx.
66. Then, for entrance or a parade, you have them carry a melon and a cauliflower to make Melancholy.
67. To my eye, the flower is not at all melancholy but rather luscious.
68. It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens 
69. His was a face, stern, even a little melancholy in repose, which was transfigured when he smiled.
70. Why does their melancholy sport exert such a strong pull on my heart?
71. Sunday morning brings to this trip a new sensation: Melancholy.
72. Gone was the haunting melancholy,(sentencedict.com) the air not so much of discontent as of incompleteness.
73. His songs were melancholy pictures of life and love and the evils of the consumer revolution.
74. He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy.
75. The linnet lifted its beak and uttered a few melancholy notes as she opened the cage door.
76. Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.
77. It is a very beautiful instrument, chiefly used for solo work where a melancholy and expressive tone-quality is appropriate.
78. At 19 though, he had lost his fire and brimstone and was withdrawn and melancholy.
79. Seam combine melancholy, rage and pure plaintive yearning to devastating effect.
80. The Moray left Midway in a melancholy drizzle.sentencedict.com
81. Her melancholy eyes avidly scanned his smiling face.
82. His mood inclined to melancholy and retrospection.
83. Morris extended his empty hands with a melancholy smile.
84. Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness.
85. The musical theme expresses melancholy.
86. Are you in character somber, melancholy, or neglectful?
87. Caledon: I know you've been melancholy.
88. It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact.
89. Miriam becomes melancholy and secretive.
90. Some people dance away the pressure, the melancholy and the fear.
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