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Meaning of melancholy


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  melancholy
      adj 1: characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
             "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic
             smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
             [syn: {melancholy}, {melancholic}]
      2: grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful
         music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" [syn:
         {somber}, {sombre}, {melancholy}]
      n 1: a feeling of thoughtful sadness
      2: a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
      3: a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys
         or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy [syn: {black
         bile}, {melancholy}]


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