Grave or even gloomy in character.
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy.
1 London producer James Mathé's way with melancholy continues to serve him well.
2 My eyes are the colour of burned wine; in them lives melancholy .
3 Maloof took one last melancholy look at his new ceiling, and left.
4 I am; and it is the most melancholy journey I ever attempted.
5 The greatness of the affair terrified him; yet its melancholy drew him.
6 She'd been real melancholy in the fall - religious melancholy - it ran in her family.
7 The essence of all human melancholy is in the sentiment of farewells.
8 And that was to Andrew the most melancholy sound in the world.
9 The disposition of a melancholy lover is in the utmost degree variable.
10 The artist of the melancholy trade was at work in his yard.
11 Her weeping voice melted in the melancholy sobbing of the aureate sea.
12 The melancholy pleasure he shall have in the perusal of her papers.
13 But the melancholy of the past has no permanent place in Bible-study.
14 In Portugal, the interest of king Charles wore a very melancholy aspect.
15 In hers was the same veiled, restless melancholy as in his own.
16 Weber smiled in rather melancholy fashion, and said in a low tone:
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