Definitions for melancholy

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melancholy mel·an·chol·y

Spelling: [mel-uh n-kol-ee]

IPA: /ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl i/

Melancholy is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 20 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 553 anagrams from letters in melancholy (acehllmnoy).

Definitions for melancholy

noun

1. a gloomy state of mind, especially when habitual or prolonged; depression.
2. sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
3. Archaic. the condition of having too much black bile, considered in ancient and medieval medicine to cause gloominess and depression. black bile.

adjective

1. affected with, characterized by, or showing melancholy; mournful; depressed:
2. causing melancholy or sadness; saddening:
3. soberly thoughtful; pensive.

Origin of melancholy

1275-1325; Middle English melancholie Late Latin melancholia Greek melancholía condition of having black bile, equivalent to melan- melan- + chol(ḗ) bile + -ia

Examples for melancholy

And that was to Andrew the most melancholy sound in the world.

You know, Ack, the melancholy of it all is that we grew up there.

"Trouble him not," murmured the melancholy man, with gentleness.

If the boys had not appeared we might now be weeping in a melancholy row.

I found their melancholy inviting and I appreciated their contemplative, lonely world.

In the first chapter, rebellious Holly Sykes runs away from home and headlong into the melancholy perils of first love.

The slurring of relationships and transactions has effects ranging from the gruesome to the melancholy.

Young and gracious faces, somewhat remote and proud, but with a melancholy and sweet kindness.

If he be proved culpable in this most melancholy business, and, alas!

She pitied herself,—that lowest ebb of melancholy self-consciousness.