melancholy noun [mass noun] a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause: an air of melancholy surrounded him he had an ability to convey a sense of deep melancholy and yearning through much of his work at the centre of his music lies a profound melancholy and nostalgia another term for melancholia (as a mental condition). historical another term for black bile. adjective having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive: she felt a little melancholy a dark, melancholy young man with deep-set eyes causing or expressing sadness; depressing: the melancholy tone of her writing
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