melancholy
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Synonyms & Antonyms for melancholy
Synonyms: Noun
blue devils, blues, dejection, depression, desolation, despond, despondence, despondency, disconsolateness, dispiritedness, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dreariness, dumps, forlornness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, heartsickness, joylessness, miserableness, mopes, mournfulness, oppression, sadness, sorrowfulness, unhappiness
Synonyms: Adjective
depressing, dismal, drear, dreary, heartbreaking, heartrending, mournful, pathetic, sad, saddening, sorry, tearful, teary
Antonyms: Noun
bliss, blissfulness, ecstasy, elatedness, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, exultation, felicity, gladness, gladsomeness, happiness, heaven, intoxication, joy, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilation, rapture, rapturousness
Antonyms: Adjective
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Examples of melancholy in a Sentence
Noun
the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholyAdjective
A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realization that you can't make old friends. — Christopher Hitchens, Harper's, June 1999 He has a snarled mop of spiky black hair, melancholy circles around his eyes, and a tiny Cupid's-bow mouth. — Pauline Kael, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 1990 I see your mournful party in my mind's eye under every varying circumstance of the day; … the efforts to talk, the frequent summons to melancholy orders and cares, and poor Edward, restless in misery, going from one room to the other … — Jane Austen, letter, 24 Oct. 1808 She was in a melancholy mood. He became quiet and melancholy as the hours slowly passed.
Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
And then Kuchlenz — known as ZJ del Mar — comes back with an explicit verse that contradicts the song’s previous melancholy. — Kimberly Mitchell, The Mercury News, "SadInSF members channel emotion, friendship through music; Collaboration of Carlmont High grads recently played Palo Alto festival," 23 June 2019 The elegiac score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva is redolent with the buoyant melancholy of klezmer. — Charles Mcnulty, latimes.com, "Review: ‘Indecent’ at the Ahmanson pays haunting tribute to a daring Yiddish play," 11 June 2019 The iconoclastic writer/director’s stamp is all over his ninth film (★★★ out of four; rated R; in theaters nationwide Friday), Tarantino's signature style and humor melding with violence, a little melancholy and thought-provoking character drama. — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, "Review: 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood' is a fairy tale only Quentin Tarantino could tell," 23 July 2019 But the nostalgia mixed with melancholy as some of the most revered figures showed the effects of age, and the game’s toll. — Kalyn Kahler, SI.com, "The Bears at 100: Cheers and a Few Tears," 11 June 2019 Annabelle Comes Home delves into Daniela’s grief and Judy’s lonely-teen melancholy, sorrowful subplots that never connect emotionally. — Darren Franich, EW.com, "Annabelle Comes Home pushes the Conjuring universe toward absurdity: EW review," 24 June 2019 Despite the faint air of melancholy, a raucous good time was had during the two-hour show. — Donna Freedman, Anchorage Daily News, "‘Whale Fat Follies’ launches final run with a hint of wistfulness and signature raucous humor," 28 June 2019 Keanu Reeves is a human capable of both machismo and melancholy. — Lauren Le Vine, refinery29.com, "Keanu Reeves Has Some Thoughts About The “Keanussance”," 15 June 2019 For few things in sports elicit as much melancholy as watching a future Hall-of-Famer crawl to the end of their career. — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, "Miguel Cabrera reminds us watching decline of future HOF's never easy," 6 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Englert’s performance is nuanced and impressive, given that she’s been asked to spend much of her screen time washing things and looking melancholy.