Melancholy

['melənkəlɪ] or ['mɛlənkɑli]

解釋/意思:

(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' .

盖尔校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(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.

詹妮校對

同義詞及近義詞：

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.

黛安娜校對

同義詞及反義詞：

[See MELANCHOLY]

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

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

編輯:特鲁迪

解釋/意思:

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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