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Definition of Melancholy

Melancholy Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. Ill nature. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. Favorable to meditation; somber. Related Definitions: Afflictive, Amounting, And, As, Calamitous, Causing, Considerable, Continued, Continuing, Deep, Dejected, Dejection, Depressed, Depression, Deranged, Dismal, Event, Evil, Favorable, Gloominess, Gloomy, Great, Grief, Having, Ill, Impaired, In, Meditation, Melancholia, Melancholy, Mental, Mind, Nature, Of, Pensive, Producing, Serious, Somber, Somewhat, State, The, Time, To

Melancholy Quotations All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. Anatole France Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. Mason Cooley Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking. Samuel Johnson It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Charles Baudelaire

Melancholy Translations melancholy in Dutch is weemoedig, droefgeestig, melancholiek melancholy in Portuguese is melancolia

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