Its origin is the Greek word ΜΕΛΑΓΧΟΛΙΑ / Μελαγχολία ( ΜΕΛΑΝ + ΧΟΛΗ, Μέλαινα χολή ), equal to "black mood", the "blues".
According to Hippocrates, there are 7 human types categorized by wrath/bile (spleen-secretions). One out of those seven types is the melancholic man.
Melancholy is an adjective. This is because it is the part of speech that would describe the noun, or pronoun, in a sentence. For example "Sarah was very melancholy" - Sarah is the noun, and melancholy is describing Sarah.
Melancholy means sadness or gloom... sometimes depression.
Melancholys:
This is the feeeling of sadness or depression
The adjective is melancholic.
It basically means "Sadness" - "Melancholia" is an old medical term for Depression.
it means make up
dejection
Unhappy, depressed, melancholy.
A good word meaning sad is melancholy.
The correct spelling is melancholy (a negative or depressed emotional state).
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Unhappy, depressed, melancholy.
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A good word meaning sad is melancholy.
Melancholy
Melancholy?
Melancholy or sadness.
The correct spelling is melancholy (a negative or depressed emotional state).
"Melancholia" is a word for a substance called black bile, which was supposed to make you depressed. The "melan" part of melancholia is the "black" part of black bile.
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Melancholy
A melancholy strain means a sad song sung by someone.
The word is "melancholy."