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
Set to a haunting score by the director’s brother Giorgi, this melancholic mystery presents Georgia’s open plains and mountain regions in alien, oneiric contexts.
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Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Beginning life as a lighter, more kid-friendly spinoff before transforming into something more melancholic and thoughtful than its parent series, Boruto is also broken into two distinct halves.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Still, scattershot laughs aside, Happy Gilmore 2’s efforts at silliness are overwhelmed by a sensibility that’s downright melancholic and overshadowed by death, and not just the impending one of the film industry.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 25 July 2025
Jack Spicer, a severely melancholic California poet whose own death drive ended tragically, left us with exquisite Orphic car poems in his wake.
—Rosie Stockton
may 29, Literary Hub, 29 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholic
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Is this a deeply sad, award-winning tearjerker of a drama?—
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The schism that developed between Ric and Ben is a very sad part of the story.—
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The writer, known for her trailblazing work in confessional poetry, was clinically depressed and died by suicide at age 30.—
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Barbeau had been living alone, depressed and isolated since Jessica’s death.—
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Smart, much like Georgia’s fan base, is pretty unhappy after yet another loss to Alabama.—
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While there are reasons to be unhappy with the performance, each win in the NFL is hard to get.—
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For Esquinas, the goal is to balance melancholy with hope.—
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Although the play has its melancholy moments, Shakina doesn’t dwell on them.—
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This isn't the first time the internet has been left heartbroken when a dog didn't want to play.—
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My newlywed wife was heartbroken.—
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The same goes for Treinen, who endured a miserable September, allowing 12 runs (10 earned) in 9 1/3 innings.—
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And so, a miserable team performance was cemented into a 26-21 loss, the team’s first of the year.—
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The atmosphere at Charlie Kirk's memorial in Glendale, Arizona, is anything but mournful.—
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So mournful the distant owl in Black Brooks.—
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Many of the people opining and whining about how this moment could be as bad or worse than the 2000 bust are uninformed or ahistorical.—
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Thankfully, my passport wasn’t stolen, nor was it stranded somewhere in the middle of the rainforest (my worst fear at the time).—
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“Melancholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholic. Accessed 3 Oct. 2025.
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