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as in sad
causing unhappiness
the melancholy thought of having to say good-bye to all the friends he had made over the summer
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as in depressed
feeling unhappiness
they were a bit melancholy after their youngest child left for college
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as in thoughtful
given to or marked by long, quiet thinking
a melancholy period in the artist's life that is reflected in his work
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as in sadness
a state or spell of low spirits
the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy
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Recent Examples of melancholy
Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Arnow, starring as the protagonist, also develops a bold, melancholy choreography for one of the year’s most original performances, in synch with her precise camera style.
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—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
The narration is hued with melancholy, the sentences hypnotic, and the whole book made with a grace not often found in fiction.
—The Week Us, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Adjective
Their relationship deepens over the course of the film, culminating in a final scene that ends their story with a melancholy ambivalence.
—Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2024
Arnow, starring as the protagonist, also develops a bold, melancholy choreography for one of the year’s most original performances, in synch with her precise camera style.
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—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2024
Noun
Nearly all of them from his late grandmother, who occasionally spoke with melancholy and pride about her older son, Jack.
—Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 2024
The narration is hued with melancholy, the sentences hypnotic, and the whole book made with a grace not often found in fiction.
—The Week Us, theweek, 3 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholy
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However, sad to say, Gmail accounts remain a prime target for attackers of all sorts and understanding the threat is key to getting a grip on mitigating it.Davey Winder, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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What kids gain from taking charge of their own feelings Having strong emotional regulation skills doesn’t mean kids won’t feel sad, angry, or frustrated — that’s part of being human.Amy Morin, Contributor, CNBC, 13 Dec. 2024
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Starting with him all depressed, doing a team-up, switching sides, going through this whole emotional journey with his grandfather, and everything that that entails as well.Josh Weiss, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
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Half of Wisconsin high schoolers reported feeling anxious, a third depressed and a fifth self-harming, according to the Youth Risk Behavior Survey in 2021, Antigo, a town of about 8,000 and the county seat of Langlade County, is no different.Rebecca Loroff, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
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Kenneth: Strong, stylish, and elegant, Kenneth is a thoughtful choice.Kara Nesvig, Parents, 19 Dec. 2024
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Who wouldn’t be crazy in love after receiving gifts that balanced the beautifully thoughtful with the extremely expensive?Maura Johnston, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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God knows there are people out there in more difficult, dire or depressing situations than covering a sport for a salary.The Athletic NFL Staff, The Athletic, 26 Dec. 2024
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No one wants to listen to depressing or hyper-serious Christmas songs.Brendan Menapace, SPIN, 23 Dec. 2024
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Some artists and publishers are unhappy with the way their content is being scraped freely by companies like OpenAI and Google to train their large language models — AI models trained on huge quantities of data to generate humanlike responses.Ryan Browne, CNBC, 17 Dec. 2024
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Cronin — who had to cancel some summer shows this year due to unspecified health issues — further acknowledges that there’s acrimony between he and Hall, and he’s been unhappy with some of the social media discourse blaming him for the end of the REO Speedwagon name.Gary Graff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2024
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Allow all work-study students to gain academic credit for their work study position by connecting their job to an academic reflective assignment reviewed by their manager and academic advisor.Brandon Busteed, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024
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One day before his sentencing, Thomas posted a reflective message on Instagram, acknowledging his guilt and the consequences that would follow.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 20 Dec. 2024
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How to prevent depression with aging, according to AARP BYDebra Whitman December 24, 2024 3 months ago Health Got COVID?Beth Greenfield, Fortune Well, 27 Dec. 2024
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Patients who took months of dance classes found their depression eased, a small study published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research says.Maureen Mackey, Fox News, 26 Dec. 2024
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Her observations as a woman once romantically involved with the two of them at the same time, confirm their masculine inability to speak their feelings out loud unless they are veiled in mournful songs.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Melancholy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholy. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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