Tra từ melancholy - Từ điển LongMan Dictionary

I. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a secretive, melancholy man
▪ the melancholy tone of the poem
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.
▪ For six weeks after our arrival it rained almost continually and the wind howled melancholy dirges around our chimneys and doors.
▪ He was much more content now, though melancholy about himself and what he'd come to.
▪ His songs were melancholy pictures of life and love and the evils of the consumer revolution.
▪ It is a very beautiful instrument, chiefly used for solo work where a melancholy and expressive tone-quality is appropriate.
▪ She smiled a knowing, somewhat melancholy smile.
▪ This melancholy contrast brought to our Southern sensibilities a touch of sadness.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Goya struggled with his feelings of deep melancholy.
▪ He was a strange man, prone to melancholy and bouts of drinking.
▪ Jake was fourteen and suffering from adolescent melancholy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All that accentuated the swings of mood in a man capable of intense enjoyment but subject also to persistent melancholy.
▪ Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy.
▪ He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy.
▪ In a mood of bitter-sweet melancholy, I walked back to the centre of Dublin.
▪ Jacinto, too, describes his malaise and melancholy in speech typical of the Romantic mal du siecle.
▪ Lights began to go on in the dark houses, and I relished my melancholy to the last drop.
▪ So now Baez, who recently turned 55, has a sense of accomplishment and relief and even some melancholy.
▪ The Grand Duke's expression slowly changed to one of melancholy.

melancholy

I. mel‧an‧chol‧y¹ /ˈmelənkəli $ -kɑːli/ adjective
very sad:
　 ▪ The music suited her melancholy mood.

II. melancholy² noun [UNCOUNTABLE]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : melancolie, from Late Latin melancholia, from Greek, from melas 'black' + chole 'bile']
formal a feeling of sadness for no particular reason ⇨ depression:
　 ▪ He sank into deep melancholy.
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THESAURUS
▪sadness a sad feeling, caused especially when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else’s unhappiness :
　 ▪ Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss.
　 ▪ I noticed a little sadness in her eyes.
▪unhappiness the unhappy feeling you have when you are in a very difficult or unpleasant situation, especially when this lasts for a long time :
　 ▪ After years of unhappiness, she finally decided to leave him.
　 ▪ She was a tense, nervous young woman, whose deep unhappiness was obvious to all those around her.
　 ▪ You do not know how much pain and unhappiness you have caused.
▪sorrow written the feeling of being very sad, especially because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you :
　 ▪ There seemed to be nowhere to go to be alone with her sorrow.
　 ▪ His heart was filled with great sorrow after her death.
▪misery great unhappiness, caused especially by living or working in very bad conditions :
　 ▪ The cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless is increasing.
　 ▪ Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery.
　 ▪ The misery and pain he caused were, for him, merely a measure of his success.
▪despair a feeling of great unhappiness, because very bad things have happened and you have no hope that anything will change :
　 ▪ At the end of the month, she still had no job and was tired, frustrated, and close to despair.
▪grief great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died :
　 ▪ He was overcome with grief when his wife died.
▪heartache a strong feeling of great sadness, especially because you miss someone you love :
　 ▪ She remembered the heartache of the first Christmas spent away from her sons.
▪depression a mental illness that makes someone feel so unhappy that they have no energy or hope for the future, and they cannot live a normal life :
　 ▪ He slipped into a depression in which he hardly ate or even left his room.
▪despondency formal a feeling of being very unhappy and without hope :
　 ▪ She felt useless, and this contributed to her despondency.
▪melancholy literary a feeling of sadness, that you feel even though there is no particular reason for it :
　 ▪ Modigliani expressed his melancholy through his painting.