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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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
Adjective
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As Malcolm and Henry prepare to return home, they are met with the sad news that Isaac Grant (Brian McCardie) has died, throwing Malcolm into a new leadership position.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Sep. 2025
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Happy for her but selfishly sad.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Because that’s the case, their actual margin opportunity is depressed.—
Evan Clark,
Footwear News,
15 Sep. 2025
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This might be because people are a bit depressed.—
Georgia Nicols,
Denver Post,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Kybella can be used as an alternative to surgery for patients who are unhappy with fat under their chin, also known as submental fullness, and have not seen improvement with diet and exercise, according to the manufacturers.—
Alyssa Goldberg,
USA Today,
18 Sep. 2025
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Folks felt exposed or excluded or some unhappy combination of both.—
Andrew Pasquier,
Them.,
18 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But the film, written and directed by Benny Safdie, is a sensitive, even melancholy look at how an aging athlete comes to accept defeat with the help of those around him.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
20 Sep. 2025
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Director Kogonada, who previously guided Farrell in After Yang, is going for alternate melancholy and whimsy, an uneven blend of introspective drama and high-concept fantasy that feels a bit lost in translation and doesn’t quite work the way it was intended.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her family is heartbroken and devastated by this tragic loss.—
Angel Saunders,
PEOPLE,
19 Sep. 2025
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And utterly heartbroken for Charlie’s young family.—
Amanda Castro
Gabe Whisnant
Anna Commander
Toby Meyjes
Shane Croucher
John Feng
Joshua Rhett Miller,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Meanwhile, Jeremiah is miserable, has nowhere to live, and is trying to find meaning through meaningless flings.—
Olivia Petter,
Vogue,
16 Sep. 2025
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The Arizona Cardinals and head coach Jonathan Gannon made life miserable for Carolina Panthers quarterback Bryce Young and head coach Dave Canales, from start to finish, Sunday at State Farm Stadium.—
DIAMOND VENCES,
Charlotte Observer,
14 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Her powerhouse voice, singing intensely sad words, was piercing, clarion, mournful, and hopeful, all at once.—
Shaad D’Souza,
Pitchfork,
18 Sep. 2025
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The backstory for the maze follows the mournful tale of Mary Worth after the tragic death of her family.—
Brady MacDonald,
Oc Register,
16 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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But that’s actually a bad thing for a couple reasons.—
Jeff Fedotin,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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But worse than the poverty was the verbal and physical abuse from his father.—
John Blake,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Melancholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholic. Accessed 22 Sep. 2025.
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