Melancholy is an English word with synonyms like melancholic or humor. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Melancholy in a sentence
Melancholy meaning
- Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
- Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Synonyms of Melancholy
Using Melancholy
- The main meaning on this page is: Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies. | Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
- Useful related words include: melancholic, humor, body fluid, bodily fluid.
- In the example corpus, melancholy often appears in combinations such as: of melancholy, the melancholy, and melancholy.
Context around Melancholy
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 5 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Melancholy
- In this selection, "melancholy" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 20.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, banger, seasonal, song, moment and requires stand out and add context to how "melancholy" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include accept the melancholy she believed and amid the melancholy. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "melancholy" sits close to words such as ababa, accommodating and adhered, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with melancholy
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
It was a melancholy moment. (5 words)
Melancholy has been part of 's songwriting toolbox from the start. (11 words)
His newest album, “Empty Spaces,” has been called emotive, pensive, and melancholy. (12 words)
The songs burst forth, tenderly and lovingly by a soft falsetto, reminding us all of the melancholy arc that love can bring, as well as the wonder and joy that lives around the corner from it. (36 words)
A combination of cancer and melancholy over humanity’s destructive attitude towards nature led him to weigh down his body with diving weights and jump off of the side of a friend’s ship. (34 words)
From the moment she steps out of the cab into the misty morning of 1960s New York, Hepburn is a vision of melancholy and glamour, a broken dream in high heels and a tiara. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
A combination of cancer and melancholy over humanity’s destructive attitude towards nature led him to weigh down his body with diving weights and jump off of the side of a friend’s ship.
Albarn’s piano tribute is slower and more melancholy than the original version, but instantly recognisable as the 1980 track.
Co-written and produced by pedigreed hitmakers Ariel Rechtshaid and Dan Nigro, it’s an intriguing banger – melancholy and dramatic and driven by a Kate Bush-like vocal performance from Kylie.
Even when you listen deeper, the record contains plenty of hope amid the melancholy.
From the moment she steps out of the cab into the misty morning of 1960s New York, Hepburn is a vision of melancholy and glamour, a broken dream in high heels and a tiara.
His Academy Award winning theme for The Last Emperor (1987) is exquisitely placed between wistful and melancholy.
His melancholy song melted the stone-cold heart of the god of death.
His newest album, “Empty Spaces,” has been called emotive, pensive, and melancholy.
In the title role, Steve Davislim displays thrilling technical prowess, while as his (almost) doomed son Idamante, Catherine Carby’s mezzo is both melancholy and golden warm.
It was a melancholy moment.
Melancholy has been part of 's songwriting toolbox from the start.
Melancholy has given way to anxious concern about the dangers which climate change poses for the future of the planet.
Morgan came to accept the melancholy she believed to be caused by the pill as her new normal.
Or maybe to emit a long sigh that expresses both melancholy and consent.
Overall, managing seasonal melancholy requires a multifaceted approach that focuses on maintaining good mental health throughout the year.
Sometimes cited as “lesser Miyazaki,” is actually one of his most complex and melancholy films.
That melancholy lifted with bigger, bolder rock numbers (“Burn,” “Primary,” and especially “Shake Dog Shake”) and slower, wistful plaints (“Charlotte Sometimes,” “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea”).
The movie carries the grim and melancholy tone of many Cold War movies as it explores the themes of compassion and personal connection that bares surprisingly relevant for a story of this era.
The soldier’s posture is awkward, almost inattentive; the whole mood is one of melancholy, if not desolation.
The songs burst forth, tenderly and lovingly by a soft falsetto, reminding us all of the melancholy arc that love can bring, as well as the wonder and joy that lives around the corner from it.
Common combinations with melancholy
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of melancholy 28×
- the melancholy 26×
- and melancholy 24×
- melancholy and 16×
- melancholy of 10×
- melancholy as 9×
- with melancholy 6×
- to melancholy 6×
- melancholy in 5×
- his melancholy 3×