melancholy
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Written after a painful breakup, the album is marked by a melancholy style and includes guest appearances from SZA, Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
Right now in Los Angeles it’s Wes Week, with multiple tributes to the career of filmmaker Wes Anderson, known for his fastidious visual style, melancholy longing and nerd-chic aesthetic.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
If you’ve never watched “Baskets,” this melancholy little picnic isn’t representative of its mood so much as its philosophy.
From Salon ● Jun. 30, 2026
"Is friendship all just for show?" they sing over a melancholy guitar line.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
One is proud, one collects one’s receipts, and even if one is a bit melancholy, one moves on.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
The pains, regrets and melancholies of the adult characters mingle with the fresher but no less complex experiences of the teenagers getting a taste of love, death and fellowship for the first time.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2023
Says Faber Birren, 82, the dean of American color researchers: "Color distracts you from yourself and relieves you of inner anxieties, melancholies and fears."
From Time Magazine Archive
How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!
From Madame Bovary by Aveling, Eleanor Marx
There are melancholies, general paralytics, insane who are inoffensive, and whom one should not call lunatics; there are impulsive psychasthenics who are dangerous and whom one shall have to call lunatics.
From A Psychiatric Milestone Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 by New York Hospital. Society
But Ivan was, at this time, little given to melancholies; and a laughing question from Vladimir in the next room, brought him back to realities and his man's work.
From The Genius by Potter, Margaret Horton
Vocabulary lists containing melancholy
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
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