Thesaurus / melancholy
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
What saves me from my warm-weather melancholy, however, are new product releases signaling the promise of the next ski season.
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The Josh Allen Experience got a little less wild — a lot betterWhile the Bills dominated, their fans rejoiced with a tinge of melancholy.
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But, when the car came thundering down, it was crammed to the step; with a melancholy gesture, the driver declined her signal.
HILDA LESSWAYSARNOLD BENNETT
At the same time he is appreciative and very amusing, and one has no chance to indulge in melancholy with him.
MUSIC-STUDY IN GERMANYAMY FAY
Quaint old Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy," recognizes the virtues of the plant while he anathematizes its abuse.
There is among women always a melancholy satisfaction in seeing the very last of the beloved object.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME I (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLS
There is nothing like it among us at the present day except within the melancholy precincts of the penitentiary.
THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICESTEPHEN LEACOCK
On rainy or melancholy days Edna went out and sought the society of the friends she had made at Grand Isle.
THE AWAKENING AND SELECTED SHORT STORIESKATE CHOPIN
I imagined myself both melancholy and bitter and grew unhealthily romantic.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON
Tom and Blanche had fallen into teasing tricks, a sort of melancholy play to relieve the tedium.
THE DAISY CHAINCHARLOTTE YONGE
WORDS RELATED TO MELANCHOLY
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- anguish
- bitterness
- blue devils
- blue funk
- blues
- catatonia
- chagrin
- cheerlessness
- dejection
- depression
- desolation
- despair
- despondence
- despondency
- disconsolateness
- discouragement
- dismals
- distress
- doldrums
- dolefulness
- dolor
- downheartedness
- dullness
- dumps
- dysphoria
- foreboding
- funk
- glumness
- grief
- heaviness
- heavy-heartedness
- horror
- low spirits
- malaise
- melancholy
- misery
- misgiving
- mope
- morbidity
- mourning
- oppression
- pensiveness
- pessimism
- sadness
- saturninity
- sorrow
- unhappiness
- vexation
- weariness
- woe
- benevolence
- charity
- clemency
- comfort
- commiseration
- compassion
- compunction
- condolement
- condolence
- dejection
- distress
- empathy
- favor
- forbearance
- goodness
- grace
- humanity
- kindliness
- kindness
- lenity
- melancholy
- mercy
- philanthropy
- quarter
- rue
- ruth
- sadness
- solace
- sorrow
- sympathy
- tenderness
- understanding
- warmth
- absorbed
- analytical
- attentive
- brainy
- calculating
- cerebral
- cogitative
- contemplative
- deep
- deliberative
- discerning
- earnest
- engrossed
- excogitative
- farsighted
- grave
- in a brown study
- intellectual
- intent
- keen
- levelheaded
- logical
- lost in thought
- meditative
- melancholy
- museful
- musing
- pensive
- philosophic
- pondering
- preoccupied
- rapt
- rational
- reasonable
- reasoning
- reflecting
- reflective
- retrospective
- serious
- sober
- speculative
- studious
- subjective
- thinking
- wise
- wistful
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