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Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary
melancholy
1. a feeling of thoughtful sadness (Freq. 4) • Hypernyms: sadness, unhappiness • Hyponyms: gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness, heavyheartedness, pensiveness, brooding, world-weariness, Weltschmerz 2. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed • Hypernyms: depression 3. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy • Syn: black bile • Hypernyms: liquid body substance, bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour
1. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness (Freq. 3) - growing more melancholy every hour - her melancholic smile - we acquainted him with the melancholy truth • Syn: melancholic • Similar to: sad • Derivationally related forms: melancholic (for: melancholic), melancholia (for: melancholic) 2. grave or even gloomy in character - solemn and mournful music - a suit of somber black - a somber mood • Syn: somber, sombre • Similar to: depressing, cheerless, uncheerful • Derivationally related forms: sombreness (for: sombre), somberness (for: somber)
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