MELANCHOLY
\mˈɛlənkˌɒli], \mˈɛlənkˌɒli], \m_ˈɛ_l_ə_n_k_ˌɒ_l_i]\
Definitions of MELANCHOLY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
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a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
By Princeton University
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a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
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a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
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Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
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Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
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Ill nature.
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Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
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Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
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Favorable to meditation; somber.
By Oddity Software
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Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
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Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
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Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
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Ill nature.
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Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
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Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
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Favorable to meditation; somber.
By Noah Webster.
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Despondence; dejection: depression of spirits.
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Depressed in spirits; dejected; mournful.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Depressed in spirits; gloomy; sad.
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A diseased state of the mind, characterized by great depression and gloomy apprehensions, so called as presumed to be due to an excess of black bile; a gloomy state of mind; depression of spirits.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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A disease supposed, by the ancients, to be caused by black bile. A variety of mental alienation, characterized by excessive gloom, mistrust, and depression, generally, with insanity on one particular subject or train of ideas, Monomania, Monomoria. Panophobia, Demonomania, Erotomania, Nostalgia, &c., may be referred to this head. Melancholy is also used for unusual gloominess of disposition.
By Robley Dunglison
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
