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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91. You heard the ceaseless high melancholy singing of the telegraph wires in the wind.
92. He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.
93. 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.
94. The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness.
95. A house in the middle of the sea where a woman waited while she played a melancholy violoncello ...She was waiting for her beloved man, a painter who had always wanted to be a sailor.
96. Being awake in the dark and sleeping in the light. Running out of reasons, the heart is occupied by delusory, wandering, melancholy and confusing ...
97. The strains of the polonaise, which had already lasted some time, were beginning to sound like a melancholy reminiscence in the ears of Natasha.
98. And if that isn't enough to make you feel melancholy, have a listen to some Sibelius.
99. St John's Wort has been used traditionally to "combat the demons of melancholy".
100. However, rainy days sometimes make people feel melancholy and lethargic.
101. The unaccountable depression that possessed Philpot deprived him of all his usual jocularity and filled him with melancholy thoughts.
102. And Cerberus, how many times I'd asked him to stop with those melancholy stares of his, or to at least prick up his ears.
103. Huck's face lost its tranquil content immediately, and took a melancholy cast.
104. This hard , melancholy dell, abandoned by the summer light, made her feel her loneliness.
105. In his psychological state, it is not difficult to find the moral sensitivity, misanthropic mood , profound melancholy and the tendency of fatalism.
106. Cosette had the voice of a linnet with a soul, and sometimes, in the evening, in the wounded man's humble abode, she warbled melancholy songs which delighted Jean Valjean.
107. For the French Government to leave her faithful Ally, czechoslovakia, to her fate was a melancholy lapse from which flowed terrible consequences.
108. Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule ; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.
109. The work focuses on the placid aesthetic pursuit. It is full of purity, ethereality and melancholy, mainly exhibits a kind of oriental nihility beauty.
110. She endeavoured to conceal a throbbing melancholy heart with the utmost sprightlness in her countenance.
111. For the first time in my life a feeling of overpowering stinging melancholy seized me.
112. He was stoical, serious, austere , a melancholy dreamer, humble and haughty,[www.Sentencedict.com] like fanatics.
113. Wind, the merciless abandon my past, Duoqing the abduction of my melancholy!
114. But the gaiety dose not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.
115. Huck's face lost its tranquil content , and took a melancholy cast.
116. During this melancholy pause , the turnkey read his newspaper with a waggish look.
117. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.
118. It also helps recolour a band best known for inky melancholy.
119. His demeanour had a kind of melancholy which was perplexing.
120. Its manifestations varied, including extreme idle state and a slight melancholy never.
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