Melancholy

['melənkəlɪ] or ['mɛlənkɑli]

解释:

(noun.) a feeling of thoughtful sadness.

(noun.) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed.

(adj.) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; 'growing more melancholy every hour'; 'her melancholic smile'; 'we acquainted him with the melancholy truth' .

盖尔校对--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

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同义词及近义词：

n. Dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, megrims, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits.

a. Dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, LACKADAISICAL, atrabillous, gloomy, hypochondriac, BLUE, dumpish, mopish, glum, downcast, desponding, down-hearted, chap-fallen, crest-fallen, hypped, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, down in the mouth, out of sorts.

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同义词及反义词：

[See MELANCHOLY]

SYN:Gloomy, sad, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, moody, hypochondriacal, cast_down

ANT:Lively, sprightly, gladsome, gleesome, blithesome, happy, cheerful, gamesome,mirthful, merry

编辑:特鲁迪

解释:

n. continued depression of spirits: dejection: a gloomy state of mind causing groundless fears: (Milt.) pensiveness.—adj. gloomy: producing grief.—n. Melanchō′lia a form of insanity in which there is continued depression or pain of mind.—adjs. Melanchol′ic Melanchō′lious affected with or caused by melancholy: dejected: mournful.

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