(a.) Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
(n.) One affected with a gloomy state of mind.
(n.) A gloomy state of mind; melancholy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors took multiple serum samples for measurement of melatonin between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. in seven male depressed patients with melancholia and five healthy male control subjects and found that melancholic patients had a significantly lower rise of melatonin.
(2) With the Extracted Criteria, initial insomnia, early waking, anorexia, weight loss, loss of libido, and worsened mood in the morning were all significantly more common in melancholia than in non-melancholic depression, while increased appetite was more common in non-melancholia.
(3) Patients with a past history of major melancholic depression or severe agoraphobia had similar binding parameters as panic disorder patients without a history of depression or severe agoraphobia.
(4) Every episode was diagnosed cross-sectionally as schizophrenic, melancholic, manic, manic-depressive mixed, schizodepressive, schizomanic or schizomanic-depressive mixed.
(5) Lower fT3 levels were also observed in melancholic depressed patients when compared with nonmelancholic depressed patients or when compared with normal control subjects.
(6) Melancholic episode: according to "Major Depression, Melancholic Type" of DSM-III-R. Manic episode: according to the criteria of DSM-III, slightly modified.
(7) Controlling for baseline biological, clinical, and demographic factors eliminated the higher prolactin response in the melancholic and psychotic patients, attenuated the blunted GH response in the unipolar patients, and revealed a blunted GH response in the melancholic patients.
(8) Occasionally certain behavioural styles and symptoms can be seen in melancholics which are difficult to classify as hysterical or pseudohysterical.
(9) However, when subjects were stratified based upon the presence or absence of DSM III-R melancholic features, the melancholic depressives showed little change in weekly depression ratings compared to patients without melancholic symptoms (p less than 0.001).
(10) Sixty-four percent of buspirone patients and 50% of placebo patients were melancholic; 64% of buspirone patients and 74% of placebo patients discontinued treatment before the end of the study.
(11) To explore whether abnormal CCK secretion during feeding may be related to pathophysiological mechanisms in disorders associated with appetite abnormalities, we report here studies of the plasma CCK response to a test meal in patients with bulimia nervosa, as well as seasonal (hyperphagic) and melancholic (anorexic) depression.
(12) A tendency in the opposite direction of the thyroxine values was found in bipolar (melancholic) patients.
(13) The results suggest that the 'depressive attributional style' may be specific to melancholic patients, and underline the importance of studying well-defined diagnostic subgroups.
(14) The test may have power in differentiating severe melancholic depression, mania, or acute psychosis from chronic psychosis (87% specificity) or dysthymia (77% specificity).
(15) In addition, when patients with more severe, melancholic, subtype of depression were examined, adinazolam was also as effective as imipramine.
(16) In the depressed group, irritability and DSM-III-R melancholic type predicted 40% or the variance of stage 4 increment after ritanserin, as assessed by stepwise multiple regression.
(17) In conditions of conflict between probability and value of reinforcement the dogs manifested two opposite strategies of behaviour: orientation to highly probable events (choleric and phlegmatic) and to low-probable events (sanguinic and melancholic) what is connected with individual properties of functioning and the character of interaction of four brain structures (frontal cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, amygdala).
(18) The sensitivity of the DST (rate of a positive outcome, or nonsuppression of cortisol) in major depression is modest (about 40%-50%) but is higher (about 60%-70%) in very severe, especially psychotic, affective disorders, including major depression with psychotic as well as melancholic features, mania, and schizoaffective disorder.
(19) Serotonin in platelet-free plasma and in platelets from melancholics was significantly reduced to 30% and 60% of their respective control values.
(20) Many wept, wiping tears off their faces as the melancholic tunes of the hymns reached them through loudspeakers.
Pensiveness
Definition:
(n.) The state of being pensive; serious thoughtfulness; seriousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly literary and pensive was Clouds of Sils Maria , in which France's Olivier Assayas combined some modish themes — the internet, celebrity gossip, superhero movies — with some hoarier themes regarding the theatre-cinema divide, ageing and female rivalry.
(2) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
(3) Aware always of what he called "the desperately thin ice" we walked on, he surveyed the world and our place in it with a pensive realism, striking no heroic postures.
(4) Like Evra at Anfield the other week, he looks pensive.
(5) Watching 5,000 people stream into the UK's biggest nightclub, recently voted one of the top 20 clubs in the world by DJ magazine, boss Sacha Lord looks pensive.
(6) Gunduz, standing pensively before the image of Ataturk, seems to have a different idea of what is Turkish.
(7) His was a slow and pensive start, in which was not only overtaken by the Ferrari pair but also by Rosberg, Max Verstappen and Felipe Massa.
(8) The party leader, Pablo Iglesias , is featured looking pensive on his balcony, working at a table in a sparsely furnished room and watering a solitary ivy plant.
(9) The guitarist also revealed he is working on a new X-pensive Winos album, the first since 1992's Main Offender.
(10) Hou became Mao's personal photographer and, over 12 years, produced pictures that burnished his image and shaped the way he is seen even now: on the seashore; pensive before the Yellow river; jovial in a crowd.
(11) The plot of Anderson's pink gateau of a movie, with its dowager duchesses, murderers and bakers, turns on the fate of a "priceless" Renaissance portrait of a youth pensively clawing an apple with long, bony fingers.
(12) After all, the lead actor is Shia LaBeouf, a boy-man who never explains to viewers whether he's deliberately trying to be a cheap copy of pensive Ed Norton.
(13) Real Madrid's coach Carlo Ancelotti looks pensive ahead of the final.
(14) So it is right that data-privacy and data-retention issues involving Facebook, Google and their brethren are being scrutinised in the European courts , and that the European Commission is working up a consumer-data protection plan that would include the right to have your data erased – or as the EC puts it, with a pensive Mediterranean poetry, the "right to be forgotten".
(15) Messi runs around in delirium, Mascherano is in floods of tears, Sabella doesn't appear to believe he's led a team to a World Cup final (stop it, be nice), Kuyt, Robben and Sneijder look pensive, and Van Gaal goes around doing the polite thing, shaking hands.
(16) The rendition , complete with pensive stares, strummed chords and graceful spins of a floating guitar, went viral – Bowie himself retweeted it, quoting his 1995 song Hallo Spaceboy.
(17) Next was the high jump, the event she was more pensive about having had only four practice sessions this year.
(18) 7.57pm BST The teams are in the tunnel Liverpool skipper Steven Gerrard is looking pensive, staring straight ahead as he waits to lead out Liverpool, whose players are wearing largely white shirts with red trim, black shorts and black socks.
(19) The 16-year-old, a slight boy with a pensive air, had hoped to reach his brother in Germany but had spent two months stranded in the squalid improvised refugee camp at Idomeni in northern Greece, praying for Macedonia to reopen the gateway to central Europe.
(20) It'd be disingenuous to omit that there were a fair number of ding-dong-style celebratory messages amidst the pensive reflections on the end of an era.