Meaning of MELANCHOLY
| Pronunciation: | | 'melun`kâlee
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- [n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
- [n] a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- [n] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- [adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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| | Synonyms: | | black bile, melancholic, sad |
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| | See Also: | | bodily fluid, body fluid, brooding, depression, gloom, gloominess, heavyheartedness, humor, humour, liquid body substance, pensiveness, sadness, somberness, unhappiness, Weltschmerz, world-weariness | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mel"an*chol*y\, n. [OE. melancolie, F.
m['e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me`las, -anos,
black + ? gall, bile. See {Malice}, and 1st {Gall}.]
1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a
considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. --Shak.
2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to
mental unsoundness; melancholia.
3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] ``Hail,
divinest Melancholy !'' --Milton.
4. Ill nature. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
\Mel"an*chol*y\, a.
1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. --Shak.
2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection;
calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
[Obs.] --Bp. Reynolds.
4. Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
--Evelin.
Syn: Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted;
unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful;
dismal; calamitous; afflictive.
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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are feeling melancholy means disappointment in an event that was assumed to be a success.
Seeing others melancholy in your dream means unpleasant interruptions in your affairs that need to be tended to immediately. |
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