单词 | melancholy |
释义 | melancholy n. & adj. --n (pl. -ies)   1. a pensive sadness.   2. a mental depression. b a habitual or constitutional tendency to this.   3. hist. one of the four humours; black bile (see HUMOUR n. 5). --adj (of a person) sad, gloomy; (of a thing) saddening, depressing; (of words, a tune, etc.) expressing sadness. Derivatives melancholic adj. melancholically adv. Etymology: ME f. OF melancolie f. LL melancholia f. Gk melagkholia f. melas melanos black + khole bile |
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