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.
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121. In the second century A.D., Galen reckoned that the cause was systemic, an excess of melancholy or black bile, one of the body’s four “humors, ” brought on by bad diet and environmental circumstances.
122. Anatole France said : All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy.
123. Huck was sitting on the gunwale of a flatboat, listlessly dangling his feet in the water and looking very melancholy.
124. He Qifang from the May Fourth period once said about melancholy, "I have secretively observed and assessed those who love the world. Do they also feel desperate?"
125. Neruda: Happy despairing "you like my soul, in an my dream butterfly, you are similar to the melancholy this word."
126. The melancholy thoughts lingering love emotion, nestled in the air pillow.
127. As a young man, Mr. Salinger had a long, melancholy face and deep soulful eyes, but now, in the few photographs that surfaced, he looked gaunt and gray, like someone in an El Greco painting.
128. Of course, loneliness might make us down by creating an innominate sadness, and this kind of melancholy will produce some kind of beauty.
129. The fallen flowers leave no trace but fragrance, in this bleak season, let the lonely silhouette dance trippingly, shaking off the dust together with the melancholy.
130. The sound of a steam whistle fell upon a wilderness. At the parting moment immeasurable melancholy and loneliness welled up in my mind.
131. I thought she got a lovely voice, very soulful and melancholy.
132. A most melancholy fellow with a great lumping text-book in his fist.
133. When I feel melancholy[Sentencedict.com], I get some chocolate and curl up in bed alone.
134. This gallant speech was rewarded with a sweet, though a melancholy smile.
135. To lose the present in lamenting the past, was voluntarily to protract a melancholy vision.
136. Yet notwithstanding all this, the boy grew more and more melancholy and pale and dejected.
137. Melancholy, weariness, tedium? the reiteration of the note cannot be coincidence.
138. But the gaiety does not ring true and anybody who has just one drink too many is apt to lapse into lachrymose melancholy.
139. Melancholy, kindly, reclusive, handsome, talented and shy, J. W. Godward's life is still a mystery, a censored book, protected by himself and sealed by his family.
140. The earlier melancholy made the work undecipherable,[http://sentencedict.com/melancholy.html] but recent works are conveying a sense of calming harmony where thoughts have condensed.
141. From the direction of the pond came the dreamy strains of Lin Pei - shan's melancholy Romona.
142. Moldova's folk dance passionate, poetic, slightly melancholy, and fully reflects the character of this nation.
143. I imagined that if I left South Bend, I would meet a melancholy, athletic boy who liked to read as much as I did and on overcast Sundays we would take walks together wearing wool sweaters.
144. Acid taste Tamarindus melancholy, deep feelings Tamarindus cool shade of a tree.
145. And then there came, mingling with his half - formed dreams , a most melancholy caterwauling.
146. Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any natural object, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man.
147. In North China , however, it is particularly, limpid, serene and melancholy.
148. The plaintive droning of a cicada in cold weather sounds melancholy.
149. Results: The pooled odds ratio ( OR ) values ( 95 % CI ) were melancholy 3.
150. "Spiritual poverty" of the poverty university students mainly has several kinds of behavior such as self-obturate, anxiety and melancholy, green-eyed monster, abandonment.
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