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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)

  1. (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.
  2. 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.

Translations

Adjective

melancholy (comparative more melancholy, superlative most melancholy)

  1. (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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heartbroken

English

Etymology

From heart +? broken.

Adjective

heartbroken (comparative more heartbroken, superlative most heartbroken)

  1. Suffering from grief, especially after a failed romance.
    Synonyms: brokenhearted, inconsolable, forlorn, despairing, dejected, disconsolate, distraught, devastated, wretched, grief-stricken, discouraged

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Anagrams

  • broken heart

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