as in sad
feeling unhappiness
she becomes quite melancholic when she reflects on all the lost opportunities of her life
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Recent Examples of melancholic
But as writers, Basden and Key avoid toothless syrupy sentiments all the same, and handle the melancholic resolution of Herb and Nell’s story in a masterful and realistic way that rings true to the heart.
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
The artist painted it during his blue period, when his work was dominated by melancholic shades of blue and green—a change that followed the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas.
X-ray and infrared scans revealed that Picasso had painted over the woman’s portrait.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The sound of colored pencils leads to the next shot: the nurse, getting out of a car, looking somewhat sad or melancholic—we’re not sure.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
The mood looks both delightful and a little melancholic — tiny, abstract people making their way in the biggest, loneliest of places.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Tomris Laffly, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
The artist painted it during his blue period, when his work was dominated by melancholic shades of blue and green—a change that followed the death of his close friend, Carlos Casagemas.
X-ray and infrared scans revealed that Picasso had painted over the woman’s portrait.
—Ella Jeffries, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2025
The sound of colored pencils leads to the next shot: the nurse, getting out of a car, looking somewhat sad or melancholic—we’re not sure.
—Anna Marie De La Fuente, Variety, 3 Feb. 2025
The mood looks both delightful and a little melancholic — tiny, abstract people making their way in the biggest, loneliest of places.
—Lewis Gordon, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholic
Adjective
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Police sad officers began providing aid to Mitchell, but medics later pronounced him dead at the scene.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacramento Bee,
4 Mar. 2025
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Oklahoma represents the sad conclusion of the Trail of Tears, and Tulsa serves as the meeting point for tribal nations—the Osage, Muscogee, and Cherokee.—
Nicholas Lalla,
WIRED,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Mass layoffs in the Beltway could force some residents to put their homes up for sale at depressed values, denting the real estate market.—
Matt Egan and Alicia Wallace,
CNN,
25 Feb. 2025
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Examples include formerly depressed but now vibrant cities, such as Pittsburgh, and once stagnant but now relatively successful developing countries, such as Bangladesh and Rwanda.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The Penguins listed Bunting as a healthy scratch early this season because coaches were unhappy with his effort in games and practices.—
Josh Yohe,
The Athletic,
6 Mar. 2025
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Independent distributors are unhappy with the growing percentage of royalty payments for their artists that are too low to be worth processing.—
Bill Rosenblatt,
Forbes,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Even the quieter domestic dramas vying less for box-office glory and more for Academy Awards acclaim feature music lush with classical detail, like Carter Burwell’s melancholy strings in Carol, giving twinkly lyricism to the emotional violence roiling beneath the characters’ skins.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
27 Feb. 2025
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Instead, their new record is merely 47 minutes and 17 seconds of relative silence and white noise, a melancholy display of the sound of music if there’s no artists to actually create it.—
Ethan Millman,
Rolling Stone,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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The record for the shortest Oscar-winning performance goes to Beatrice Straight, who played the heartbroken wife of a philandering TV station president in Sidney Lumet’s 1976 film Network.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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Listen to this article Skokie restaurateurs were left heartbroken on Valentine’s Day when a broken water main disaster in northeastern Skokie left the village without drinkable tap water from Feb. 14 through 16.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Its economic position is parlous, its demographic situation is miserable and its military capacities have atrophied, and most of the chest-thumping about a revival of European power is empty talk and fantasy politics.—
Ross Douthat,
The Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2025
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But running — the exercise that can happen almost anywhere, any time and for very little expense — always felt miserable.—
Madeline Holcombe,
CNN,
2 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Prospective Xbox players can hear the final version of the haunting, mournful Atlamaha-ha piece in EW’s exclusive reveal of a live-action music video shot for South of Midnight.—
Nick Romano,
EW.com,
6 Mar. 2025
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In the mournful mid-section, keyboardist Rick Wakeman channels Bach on the pipe organ, recorded at a London church.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The state of our budget and our debt is bad for the country and bad for working families.—
Charlotte Alter,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
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And if that wasn’t bad enough, in extremely rare circumstances, neurologic fallout from measles is delayed, showing up 7 to 10 years post-infection as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis, a degenerative disease that is ultimately fatal, Dr. Lovins says.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
28 Feb. 2025
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