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feeling unhappiness they were a bit melancholy after their youngest child left for college

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noun

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Recent Examples of melancholy
Adjective
The Welsh quartet’s Dead Meat follow-up takes DNA from the Smiths’ melancholy exuberance, the Go-Betweens’ windswept gusto, and gung-ho London punk fervor to formulate a disempowered power-pop that spins insecurity and grief into bundles of melodic joy. Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 7 Mar. 2025 Luckily, Pattinson manages to keep things buoyant without diluting the late-capitalism metaphors or the melancholy existentialism. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
There’s some comedy in there, but all the laughs are so blunted by a determined melancholy that nothing really lands. Joe Reid, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 Moving and melancholy, Chalamet’s performance brought him widespread awards recognition including SAG, BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. Radhika Seth, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for melancholy
Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholy
Adjective
  • Yet, whatever the deal means for Paul, Weiss, its acquiescence to Trump marks a sad day for the legal profession—or what once was a profession, and is now just another business.
    Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2025
  • Kwong grew up hearing stories of every kind about Manzanar—scary, sad, funny and infuriating.
    Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Swelling in the hands and feet, getting sick frequently, feeling depressed, or having wounds that are slow to heal.
    Lorena Meouchi, Vogue, 21 Mar. 2025
  • The photographer asked me to act sad and depressed, to stop smiling.
    Gaylyn Henderson, MPH, Health, 17 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • No new technology can replace what a thoughtful culture audit can reveal.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • These quotes are all from the thoughtful, candid, curious mommy makeover patients that Allure recently spoke to for our story 17 People Get Real About their Mommy Makeovers.
    Meirav Devash, Allure, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The truth is more depressing: This show is bad in the usual manner of reality television.
    Peter Tonguette, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Mar. 2025
  • That wasn’t even the most depressing of Vlasic’s quotes.
    Scott Powers, The Athletic, 19 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite that success, Willard was unhappy with the program’s financial commitments.
    Taylor Lyons, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2025
  • The extra time will presumably be used to fix whatever about the season executives are unhappy with.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • William, 42, sported the camouflage fatigues reflective of his role as Colonel-in-Chief of the Merican Regiment, an Army unit involved there, to hear about how the soldiers are securing NATO's eastern flank as part of Operation Cabrit.
    Janine Henni, People.com, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Stock performance is not reflective of the value of an economy on an absolute level, said TradeStation’s Russell.
    John Towfighi, CNN, 21 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The majority of women take acetaminophen at some point during pregnancy, with more use among those with anxiety and depression, according to past research.
    Shiv Sudhakar, FOXNews.com, 27 Mar. 2025
  • How the arts can create healthier communities According to thousands of studies, researchers have determined that involvement in the arts can improve public health and promote healing from illness, as well as protect against such problems as cognitive decline, heart disease, anxiety and depression.
    David Morgan, CBS News, 27 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The mournful footnote to Hollywood or Bust is that off-set, the friendship between Martin and Lewis had already broken down irrevocably.
    Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 19 Mar. 2025
  • Definitely — but there’s a mournful resonance to that in a play where characters reach out so desperately and remain so trapped within themselves.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Melancholy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholy. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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