Definition of Melancholy

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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.

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Melancholy Quotations

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
William Butler Yeats

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles Dickens

Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.
Susan Sontag

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.
Ritchie Blackmore

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Charles Baudelaire

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.
David Hume

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
Baruch Spinoza

The eyes of the cheerful and of the melancholy man are fixed upon the same creation; but very different are the aspects which it bears to them.
Albert Pike

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

I think every human being has a level of melancholy in life and in general.
Sandra Bullock

Melancholy Translations

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

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