Found 3 items, similar to Melancholy.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: melancholy
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: melancholy
melancholy
adj : characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
“growing
more melancholy every hour”;
“her melancholic smile”;
“we acquainted him with the melancholy truth” [syn:
melancholic]
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 [syn:
black bile
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Melancholy
Melancholy
\Mel"an*chol*y\, a.
1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. --Shak.
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2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection;
calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
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3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
[Obs.] --Bp. Reynolds.
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4. Favorable to meditation; somber.
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A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
--Evelin.
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Syn: Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted;
unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful;
dismal; calamitous; afflictive.
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Melancholy
\Mel"an*chol*y\, n. [OE. melancolie, F.
m['e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me`las, me`lanos,
black + ? gall, bile. See
Malice, and 1st
Gall.]
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1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a
considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. --Shak.
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2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to
mental unsoundness; melancholia.
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3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.]
“Hail,
divinest Melancholy !” --Milton.
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4. Ill nature. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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