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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151. To the one side of the mountain is the boundless and melancholy marsh.
152. There in the melancholy, in the dreariness, Bertha found a bitter fascination.
153. It May Rain Sometime presents Joy Rose in a lovely ballade full of melancholy and hope.
154. In the dream, just like a soul-losing man, I had no where to pour out my love knot. After I have been wakened back, a burst of melancholy makes me more despondent.
155. The tender widow's habitual melancholy seemed to deepen into a sadder gloom.
156. It stands outside my window like a huge lamp that sheds its light into my room, and even when the day is overcast, they dissipate the melancholy and scatter away all mistiness.
157. Marius was too melancholy to take even a chance pleasantry well, and to lend himself to a game which the pavement of the street seemed desirous of playing with him.
158. Some use it as a means to depict their disorientation and melancholy.
159. Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought.
160. Their melancholy shows their fighting spirit, as well as their weakness and vacillation.
161. And Moreau plays Ir è ne with an endearing mixture of worldliness, vulnerability and melancholy.
162. It was a melancholy little drama, woven from bits and scraps of gossip and neighbourhood legend.
163. Symbolist poets LI Jin-fa and Baudelaire have shown in their poems the major character of melancholy.
164. Presley was a confirmed dreamer, irresolute, inactive, with a strong tendency to melancholy.sentencedict.com
165. The symptoms, such as ominous premonition, dysphoria, hypodynamia , dyssomnia are common in anxiety; hypoergais, melancholy, irritability, anorexia are common in depression.
166. He is a complicated man— moody, mercurial, with a melancholy streak.
167. In the winter of Beijing, with snow still on the ground and dark-grey bare branches up in the sunny sky, a couple of kites were fluttering in the far distance, bringing me amazement and melancholy.
168. The term melancholy derives from the Greek words for black bile.
169. Argentina, the second largest nation, remained in melancholy stagnation and disarray.
170. Feeling melancholy , Zhang recalls his life on a sampan while scattering Shi's ashes into the sea.
171. He is a thief and a liar as well as a cold-blooded killer, but his air of quiet melancholy makes him seem like the most soulful person in the area, and also somehow the most ethical.
172. His smile, at once enchanting and melancholy, is just his father's.
173. When blood pressure is elevatory , the patient often appears similar neurasthenic symptom, and angst, melancholy.
174. Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the "Byronic hero"- the persona of a brooding melancholy young man.
175. The world is sad, Oscar Wilde said, because a puppet was once melancholy.
176. I cannot give my thoughts to reading; if I sat unoccupied, they would brood with melancholy fixedness on I know not what.
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