(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?
Unmoved
Definition:
(a.) Not moved; fixed; firm; unshaken; calm; apathetic.
Example Sentences:
(1) Annette Ramelsberger of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, who has attended every trial day so far, told German broadcaster DLF that she had been struck in particular by how unmoved Zschäpe was by the accounts given by the parents of 21-year-old Halit Yozgat, the owner of an internet cafe who was gunned down in broad daylight in Kassell on 6 April 2006.
(2) A crucial difference from Unscom is that all the Unmovic staff will be paid for directly by the UN.
(3) They were unmoved by the fact that copies of the drives were lodged round the globe.
(4) He was unmoved by the cheering in the plenary hall for the agreement, saying: "They are thinking like politicians.
(5) While Cotto seemed unmoved by the several shots that pierced his guard, he was the one who began to slow first.
(6) Brough replied: “Yes I did.” Mal Brough unmoved by calls to resign over Peter Slipper furore Read more Brough had a different response when the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus , asked the same question during parliamentary question time on Wednesday: “Did you ask James Ashby to procure copies of Peter Slipper’s diary for you?” Brough told parliament: “No.” The 60 Minutes exchange is significant because extracts of AFP search warrants that have been read into the parliamentary record suggest the police are investigating whether Brough “counselled and procured” Ashby to access restricted data and disclose extracts, contrary to criminal law.
(7) At the end of the training, the group linked arms in front of the church and began chanting: “Let them stay.” Turnbull and Dutton unmoved by calls to spare 267 asylum seekers from deportation to Nauru Read more The largest crowd appeared to gather at St John’s cathedral in Brisbane, almost filling the church.
(8) The same official had failed to notice Mario Balotelli's lunge high into Alex Song's shin at the Emirates a week earlier but was convinced here despite his linesman being unmoved and Mata the only Chelsea player to celebrate.
(9) Aleppo was divided almost immediately into government- and rebel-controlled areas, along lines that have remained mostly static ever since: a stalemate unmoved by repeated and often ruthless attempts to dislodge the other side.
(10) The Southampton substitute Maya Yoshida appeared to bundle over Alberto Paloschi in the box but the referee, Jonathan Moss, was unmoved.
(11) Unmovic takes 0.8% of this fund to pay its staff and other costs.
(12) Moyes's decision to renew United's interest has so far left Evra unmoved, with the 32-year-old currently of the mind to stay at the club while monitoring the situation as it develops.
(13) It was a crystal-encrusted hand gesture to a fashion industry that remains unmoved by the label's current red carpet ranking.
(14) Untouched by a pleading letter from Vince Cable, the business secretary begging them to " make peace with the public ", the board was certainly unmoved by the Robin Hood and Action Aid anti-tax avoidance protesters outside.
(15) Practice of late in local producing houses has actually been to revive audience-demanded canonical work by employing Australians to rewrite the words, but The Australian is unmoved – singling out my own employer, Melbourne's Malthouse, as an "offender against the art of playwriting" with "ideological bias against text-based plays".
(16) Despite repeated promises to be more open, time after time the London Assembly has hit an unmovable wall when assessing TfL finances.
(17) Petition calling for Donald Trump to be banned from UK signed by 95,000 Read more Trump toured the US television studios in unrepentant form, unmoved by the gale of criticism that followed his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on Monday evening.
(18) Between 1955 and 1958 he was minister of finance, then minister of defence, holding this post from 1959 to 1966 – unmoved and unmoveable – while prime ministers succeeded each other: Antonio Segni (1959), Fernando Tambroni (1960), Fanfani (1960-62), Giovanni Leone (1963) and Aldo Moro (1963-66).
(19) Second, when questions about issues are asked in direct relation to voting intentions, the gap between the NHS and other concerns is unmoved.
(20) The blow will be softened, however, by a weekly income of £500,000, comprised of salary, image rights and associated sponsorship, and the challenge of establishing the Beckham brand in a country that has thus far been largely unmoved by the rest of the world's favourite game.