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harsh
English
Etymology
From Middle English harsk, harisk(e), hask(e), herris. Century derived the term from Old Norse harskr (whence Danish harsk (“rancid”), dialectal Norwegian hersk, Swedish härsk); the Middle English Dictionary derives it from that and Middle Low German harsch (“rough”, literally “hairy”) (whence also German harsch), from haer (“hair”); the Oxford Dictionary of English derives it from Middle Low German alone.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /h???/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h???/
- Rhymes: -??(?)?
Adjective
harsh (comparative harsher, superlative harshest)
- Unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses.
- Severe or cruel.
Antonyms
- genteel
Translations
Verb
harsh (third-person singular simple present harshes, present participle harshing, simple past and past participle harshed)
- (intransitive, slang) To negatively criticize.
- (transitive, slang) to put a damper on (a mood).
Synonyms
- rough
Derived terms
- harshly
- harshness
Translations
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melancholy
English
Alternative forms
- melancholly, melancholie, melancholious (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English malencolie, from Old French melancolie, from Ancient Greek ?????????? (melankholía, “atrabiliousness”), from ????? (mélas), ?????- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + ???? (khol?, “bile”). Compare the Latin ?tra b?lis (“black bile”). The adjectival use is a Middle English innovation, perhaps influenced by the suffixes -y, -ly.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?mel?nk?li/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?l.?n?k?l.i/
Noun
melancholy (countable and uncountable, plural melancholies)
- (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
- , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
- Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, […] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
- , Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
- Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, V. i. 34:
- My mind was troubled with deep melancholy.
- 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act IV, Scene 1,[1]
- I have neither the scholar’s melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician’s, which is fantastical; nor the courtier’s, which is proud; nor the soldier’s, which is ambitious; nor the lawyer’s, which is politic; nor the lady’s, which is nice; nor the lover’s, which is all these; but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and, indeed, the sundry contemplation of my travels; in which my often rumination wraps me in a most humorous sadness.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, V. i. 34:
Translations
Adjective
melancholy (comparative more melancholy, superlative most melancholy)
- (literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Synonyms
- (thoughtful sadness): melancholic
- See also Thesaurus:sad
Translations
Related terms
- melancholic
- sadness
- melancholia
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