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Traditional English :: melancholy
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melncholy - n. & adj. --n. (pl. -ies)
1 a pensive sadness.
2 a mental depression. b a habitual or constitutional tendency to this.
3 hist. one of the four humours; black bile (see HUMOUR n. 5). --adj. (of a person) sad, gloomy; (of a thing) saddening, depressing; (of words, a tune, etc.) expressing sadness. melancholic adj. melancholically adv. [ME f. OF melancolie f. LL melancholia f. Gk melagkholia f. melas melanos black + khole bile] |
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Related Words
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sanguine
choleric
phlegmatic
melancholy
iced
earth
holy
martyr
mp3
depression
infinite
sadness
cove
lizard
lust
baby
lyric
combination
death
oysterboy
oyster
boy
thought
blues
ode
personality
test
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Most Often Usage
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sanguine choleric phlegmatic and melancholy
choleric melancholy sanguine
choleric melancholy
iced earth melancholy holy martyr mp3
melancholy depression
infinite melancholy sadness
cove lizard lust melancholy
melancholy baby
earth iced lyric melancholy
phlegmatic melancholy combination
sanguine melancholy
death melancholy oysterboy
the melancholy death of oyster boy
melancholy thought
melancholy phlegmatic
blues melancholy
ode to melancholy
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