| 单词 | melancholy |
| 释义 | melancholy (once / 197 pages) nadj Melancholy is beyond sad: as a noun or an adjective, it's a word for the gloomiest of spirits. Being melancholy means that you're overcome in sorrow, wrapped up in sorrowful thoughts. The word started off as a noun for deep sadness, from a rather disgusting source. Back in medieval times, people thought that secretions of the body called "humors" determined their feelings, so a depressed person was thought to have too much of the humor known as melancholy — literally "black bile" secreted from the spleen. Fortunately, we no longer think we're ruled by our spleens, and that black bile has been replaced by another color of sorrow: the "blues." WORD FAMILYmelancholy: melancholies, melancholily USAGE EXAMPLESHe never tells us what she died of, though there are hints that she committed suicide: “She succumbed to her own melancholy.” The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) It serves Mr. Pettibon well, deflecting attention from evidence, in his work and in person, of what seems an essentially inward, melancholy character. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) On Thursday, he will participate in a Q. and A. after a screening of “Moonlight,” and will introduce his first feature, “Medicine for Melancholy.” New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) 1n a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed Hyper depression a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2n a feeling of thoughtful sadness Hypo|Hyper gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness a feeling of melancholy apprehension heavyheartednessa feeling of dispirited melancholy brooding, pensivenesspersistent morbid meditation on a problem Weltschmerz, world-wearinesssadness on thinking about the evils of the world sadness, unhappiness emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being 3n a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy Syn|Hyper black bile bodily fluid, body fluid, humor, humour, liquid body substance the liquid parts of the body 4adj characterized by or causing or expressing sadness growing more melancholy every hour we acquainted him with the melancholy truth Syn melancholic sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness 5adj grave or even gloomy in character Syn somber, sombre cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy |
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