Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - melancholy
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Melancholy
melancholy
I. noun (plural -cholies) Etymology: Middle English malencolie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin melancholia, from Greek, from melan- + chole bile — more at gall Date: 14th century 1. a. an abnormal state attributed to an excess of black bile and characterized by irascibility or depression b. black bile c. melancholia 2. a. depression of spirits ; dejection b. a pensive mood II. adjective Date: 14th century 1. a. suggestive or expressive of ~ sang in a ~ voice b. causing or tending to cause sadness or depression of mind or spirit ; dismal a ~ thought 2. a. depressed in spirits ; dejected, sad b. pensive
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n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies) 1 a pensive sadness. 2 a mental depression. b a habitual or constitutional tendency to this. 3 hist. one of the four humours; black bile (see HUMOUR n. 5). --adj. (of a person) sad, gloomy; (of a thing) saddening, depressing; (of words, a tune, etc.) expressing sadness. Derivatives melancholic adj. melancholically adv. Etymology: ME f. OF melancolie f. LL melancholia f. Gk melagkholia f. melas melanos black + khole bile ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. уныние, подавленность; грусть, печаль; тоска, меланхолия 2. унылый, подавленный I was alone and feeling melancholy —- я был одинок и чувствовал себя подавленно (и мне было грустно) 3. грустный, печальный, наводящий уныние melancholy news —- печальные вести ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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1. noun уныние, подавленность; грусть 2. adj. 1) мрачный, подавленный 2) грустный; наводящий уныние Syn: see sad ...Англо-русский словарь
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1. You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness. The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep... ADJ 2. Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes. (LITERARY) I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners... N-UNCOUNT 3. If someone feels or looks melancholy, they feel or look very sad. (LITERARY) It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy... He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile. ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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~1 adj sad or making you feel sad (a melancholy expression | the seagulls' melancholy cry) ~2 n formal a feeling of sadness for no particular reason (They sank into a mood of deep melancholy. | the lingering melancholy of "Gloomy Sunday") ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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