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melancholy(1)(dictionary)
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melancholy(dictionary)
melancholy 1, adjective(dictionary)
melancholy 2, noun(dictionary)

melancholy(2) (iou)



melancholy adjective. LME.
[from the noun.]
Affected with or characterized by melancholy; liable to melancholy. Now esp. (inclined to be) sadly thoughtful or meditative. LME.
J. Thomson A certain music, never known before, Here soothed the pensive, melancholy mind. W. Irving There is no more melancholy creature..than a mountebank off duty. R. Hughes He felt acutely melancholy, not very far from tears.
b. = MELANCHOLIC adjective 1. E-M17.
Irascible, angry; sullen. LME-E17.
Suggestive of or expressing sadness; depressing, dismal. L16.
melancholy thistle a thistle of upland pastures, Cirsium helenioides, with a thornless stem and a single drooping head.
W. Lithgow Padua is the most melancholy City of Europe. H. Jacobson They cannot read a word of the melancholy poems.
Of a fact, event, etc.: lamentable, deplorable. E18.
L. Sterne Melancholy! to see such sprightliness the prey of sorrow.
melancholily adverb M16.
melancholiness noun E16-E18.
melancholish adjective (a) = MELANCHOLIC adjective 1; (b) somewhat melancholy: M16-L18.