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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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