What's the difference between deary and melancholy?

Deary


Definition:

  • (n.) A dear; a darling.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Just shocking," says Deary, whose books have sold 20m copies globally since the first one was published in 1993.
  • (2) Based on Terry Deary’s children’s publishing franchise, its Python-esque sketches won its numerous Bafta awards and a devoted fanbase among adults as well as younger viewers.
  • (3) Terry Deary , creator of the wildly successful Horrible Histories children's publishing franchise, is recalling the two-year journey to bring his books to the screen.
  • (4) Even though the publisher Scholastic held the licence, the first thing was to get Deary on board.
  • (5) The US District Judge Raymond J Dearie stayed his order until Monday, giving prosecutors time to unseal the agreement or say they intend to appeal against his decision.
  • (6) At a hearing Wednesday in Brooklyn, US district judge Raymond Dearie approved the disguise request after prosecutors told him in court papers that the officers continue to work undercover on sensitive cases and “disclosure of their identities would pose a significant risk to their safety”.
  • (7) Ken Deary , managing director for homecare provider Right at Home UK Discussion commissioned and controlled by the Guardian, funded by Cafcass.
  • (8) His predecessor, David Dearie, was sacked in September last year after presiding over a A$160m charge following the destruction of thousands of gallons of cheap wine exported to the US.
  • (9) Photograph: Nick Briggs Facebook Twitter Pinterest Macaulay Culkin as Kevin in Home Alone ... Kevin from Home Alone Horrible Christmas Farts and Santa will be the order of the day as Christmas gets the Horrible Histories makeover, courtesy of Birmingham Stage Company, who have struck gold with stage versions of Terry Deary’s popular series.
  • (10) Denis had said: "Oh no dearie, we couldn't possibly afford that."
  • (11) A day ahead of a status conference in his case in federal court in Brooklyn, prosecutors sent a letter to US district judge Raymond J. Dearie informing him that Davidson has been involved in plea negotiations.
  • (12) Fifa whistleblower Chuck Blazer: I took bribes over 1998 and 2010 World Cups Read more It revealed how the judge in the case, Raymond Dearie, referred to Fifa as a “racketeering influenced corrupt organisation”, the same terminology used in cases of organised crime, and only allowed the hearing to proceed after the Brooklyn courtroom had been locked.
  • (13) Alex Ferguson calls the decision “stupid, ridiculous, deary me”.
  • (14) District judge Raymond Dearie prohibited artists at the federal court in Brooklyn from drawing their faces, ordering that their faces be left blank and their haircuts generic in any court sketches.
  • (15) It revealed how the judge in the case, Raymond Dearie, referred to Fifa as a “racketeering influenced corrupt organization”, the same terminology used in cases of organised crime, and only allowed the hearing to proceed after the Brooklyn courtroom had been locked.

Melancholy


Definition:

  • (n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
  • (n.) Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
  • (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
  • (n.) Ill nature.
  • (a.) Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
  • (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
  • (a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
  • (a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) One radio critic described Jacobs' late night Sunday show as a "tidying-up time, a time for wistfulness, melancholy, a recognition that there were once great things and great feelings in this world.
  • (2) And melancholy is not the only thing that links Haigh’s work.
  • (3) Melancholy originally had another meaning from the present one.
  • (4) the agitated type of involutional melancholy occurred twice as often in Canada as in Hungary, the apathetic cases were rarer in Canada, and the illness began earlier among Canadian women.
  • (5) Thus New Zealand, like other countries, may be entering an age of melancholy.
  • (6) English explanations stressed religious aspects and a relationship to melancholy.
  • (7) I too was attracted to the paintings of De Chirico and Delvaux, with their dreamplaces – empty, melancholy cities, abandoned temples, broken statues, shadows, exaggerated perspectives.
  • (8) Earlier this week in Janesville, where post-industrial melancholy is evident in a closed car plant and eerily quiet downtown, House speaker Paul Ryan crushed a Trump-style challenger in a congressional primary.
  • (9) There was always a rueful melancholy, stiffened by irony and leavened by humour about him.
  • (10) Song of the summer was Waterloo Sunset by the Kinks, with its odd blend of keening melancholy and positivism.
  • (11) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (12) "Oh, if one of Dostoevsky's novels, whose black melancholy is regarded with such indulgent admiration, were signed with the name of Goncourt, what a slating it would get all along the line."
  • (13) It's a melancholy fate for any writer to become an eponym for all that he despised, but that is what happened to George Orwell, whose memory is routinely abused in unthinking uses of the adjective "Orwellian".
  • (14) As the lead singer with the Walker Brothers, he enjoyed a number of melancholy hits with songs such as The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, My Ship Is Coming In, No Regrets.
  • (15) The leading role is infinitely variable: as Oscar Wilde said , "There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies."
  • (16) In the right light and with the right song playing on the radio, there is a certain melancholy charm to this bleak highway with its unfolding panorama of wind turbines and electricity pylons stretching to the horizon.
  • (17) On the contrary: Sørens incomparable melancholy, mental agony and anxiety (fear or anguish) forced the faith, existing independently of them, in a radical refining.
  • (18) There’s a magnificent melancholy about him, this shadowy figure performing an act of unrequited love.
  • (19) Closer is a melancholy piece but it is also laugh-out-loud funny, often, as in the very best drama, at moments of starkest pain.
  • (20) Research is needed to determine whether youth will be predisposed to further depressive episodes and, if so, will we be entering a new age of melancholy?