(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?
Unhappy
Definition:
(a.) Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
(a.) In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.
(a.) Marked by infelicity; evil; calamitous; as, an unhappy day.
(a.) Mischievous; wanton; wicked.
Example Sentences:
(1) But what they take for a witticism might very well be true; most of Ellis's novels tell more or less the same story, about the same alienated ennui, and maybe they really are nothing more than the fictionalised diaries of an unremarkably unhappy man.
(2) Unless psychic rehabilitation is undertaken in tandem with physical rehabilitation, a spinal cord-injured patient is likely to become an unhappy social recluse or denizen of a chronic care facility, rather than an independent productive member of his community.
(3) Along the way, he fathered a child at 20 and immediately turned his back on her (they are now reunited), had a brief and unhappy marriage to the broadcaster Carol McGiffin and a series of frenetically unsatisfying relationships.
(4) I remind him that he had been unhappy with the penalty awarded to Barcelona in the Champions League game at Wembley last season, and he smiles.
(5) George Osborne may well end up in the unhappy position of trying to convince the public, in a haunting echo of the 2010 campaign, that he is still the man to bring the nation's finances back into balance by the end of the next parliament.
(6) Photograph: Rex If they are still unhappy they can go to the free Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS), which resolves disputes between consumers and financial firms, although the PAC raised concerns about the service’s backlog of cases.
(7) Three months later the mothers appeared to be interacting normally with their infants, but they expressed feelings of unhappiness that persisted until the infants reached 9 months of age.
(8) So we're all very unhappy about it, but what can we do?
(9) The church excommunicated him in 1901, unhappy with his novel Resurrection and Tolstoy's espousal of Christian anarchist and pacifist views.
(10) He said Abbott was reflecting the “unhappiness we all have with what was a big error”.
(11) The distance to the original venue was around 50 miles and the manager, who was unhappy with the scale of travel on last summer’s US tour, vetoed having to make the round trip.
(12) I don't think she would have been unhappy for songs to be published."
(13) The academic, one of the country’s leading experts on the drug, is particularly unhappy with the British Medical Journal (BMJ), which has run well-publicised articles by two critics of statins that he argues are flawed and misleading.
(14) The house flourished but the marriage was bitterly unhappy and ended in divorce.
(15) "Unable to get petrol yesterday and missed a full day's work which will be unpaid, very unhappy," said one from Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
(16) Splenectomy could gave a role in producing these unhappy results.
(17) He is reported to have expressed unhappiness at his own pending deployment and of US troops being responsible for the killing of fellow Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(18) The results, broadcast by Seven News on Wednesday, showed voters were also deeply unhappy with the performance of the Labor leader, Bill Shorten, and indicated that Turnbull enjoyed a strong lead as preferred prime minister.
(19) He says he was unconfident and largely unhappy at school.
(20) But the role opened my eyes to certain aspects of online gaming, such as harassment, abuse, threats and even stalking, and in many ways, it is an unhappy experience that I wish I could undo.