melancholy

 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++mel·an·chol·y1 /ˈmelənkəli $ -kɑːli/ adjective  SAD/UNHAPPYvery sad 忧郁的；令人伤感的 The music suited her melancholy mood. 这音乐很适合她的伤感情绪。

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melancholy• He was much more content now, though melancholy about himself and what he'd come to.• It is a very beautiful instrument, chiefly used for solo work where a melancholy and expressive tone-quality is appropriate.• This melancholy contrast brought to our Southern sensibilities a touch of sadness.• For six weeks after our arrival it rained almost continually and the wind howled melancholy dirges around our chimneys and doors.• Driving over the white wooden bridge that led to the farm, I found I was nursing an odd, melancholy excitement.• a secretive, melancholy man• His songs were melancholy pictures of life and love and the evils of the consumer revolution.• She smiled a knowing, somewhat melancholy smile.• the melancholy tone of the poemmelancholy2 noun [uncountable]  formalSAD/UNHAPPY a feeling of sadness for no particular reason 忧郁，无名的伤感 → depression He sank into deep melancholy. 他陷入深深的忧郁之中。

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melancholy• Jake was fourteen and suffering from adolescent melancholy.• Jacinto, too, describes his malaise and melancholy in speech typical of the Romantic mal du siecle.• Goya struggled with his feelings of deep melancholy.• He is rueful, polite, mildly disappointed, and afflicted by a low-key melancholy.• Lights began to go on in the dark houses, and I relished my melancholy to the last drop.• The Grand Duke's expression slowly changed to one of melancholy.• All that accentuated the swings of mood in a man capable of intense enjoyment but subject also to persistent melancholy.• So now Baez, who recently turned 55, has a sense of accomplishment and relief and even some melancholy.• In a mood of bitter-sweet melancholy, I walked back to the centre of Dublin.• He was a strange man, prone to melancholy and bouts of drinking.• Alone on the open desert, I have made up songs of wild, poignant rejoicing and transcendent melancholy.Origin melancholy2 (1300-1400) Old French melancolie, from Late Latin melancholia, from Greek, from melas “black” + chole “bile”

mel·an·chol·y1 adjectivemelancholy2 nounChineseSyllable  

Corpus very sad

melancholy

I

mel‧an‧chol‧y¹ /ˈmelənkəli $ -kɑːli/ adjective
very sad:
    The music suited her melancholy mood.

II

melancholy² noun [uncountable]formal a feeling of sadness for no particular reason ⇨ depression:
    He sank into deep melancholy.
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ sadness a sad feeling, caused especially when a happy time is ending, or when you feel sorry about someone else’s unhappiness: Charles felt a great sense of sadness and loss. | I noticed a little sadness in her eyes.
   ▪ unhappiness the unhappy feeling you have when you are in a very difficult or unpleasant situation, especially when this lasts for a long time: After years of unhappiness, she finally decided to leave him. | She was a tense, nervous young woman, whose deep unhappiness was obvious to all those around her. | You do not know how much pain and unhappiness you have caused.
   ▪ sorrow written the feeling of being very sad, especially because someone has died or because terrible things have happened to you: There seemed to be nowhere to go to be alone with her sorrow. | His heart was filled with great sorrow after her death.
   ▪ misery great unhappiness, caused especially by living or working in very bad conditions: The cold weather is with us again and the misery of the homeless is increasing. | Thousands of families were destined to a life of misery. | The misery and pain he caused were, for him, merely a measure of his success.
   ▪ despair a feeling of great unhappiness, because very bad things have happened and you have no hope that anything will change: At the end of the month, she still had no job and was tired, frustrated, and close to despair.
   ▪ grief great sadness that you feel when someone you love has died: He was overcome with grief when his wife died.
   ▪ heartache a strong feeling of great sadness, especially because you miss someone you love: She remembered the heartache of the first Christmas spent away from her sons.
   ▪ depression a mental illness that makes someone feel so unhappy that they have no energy or hope for the future, and they cannot live a normal life: He slipped into a depression in which he hardly ate or even left his room.
   ▪ despondency formal a feeling of being very unhappy and without hope: She felt useless, and this contributed to her despondency.
   ▪ melancholy literary a feeling of sadness, that you feel even though there is no particular reason for it: Modigliani expressed his melancholy through his painting.