melancholy
Example Sentences
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He scored a Top 20 hit in 2012 with the melancholy single Overload.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2026
That elegant dance matches what we see on stage, the kabuki performances melding melancholy and beauty, anguish and catharsis.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2026
This version is easily the equal of the original: fizzing with humor, and infused with a tenderness and melancholy sympathy for all its characters, mostly members of a family from the so-called 1%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
The book is about the dangers of monstrous appetites but also about the melancholy of unrealized desires.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
It was her book of melancholy German poems in translation!
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
