melancholy

UK
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɒ.li/
US
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɑː.li/

Übersetzungen

melancholysubstantiv
melancholies
Pl.
UK
/ˈmel.ənˌkɒl.i/
US
/ˈmɛl.ənˌkɑː.li/
A sense of melancholy settled over them after the news.
Un sentiment de mélancolie s’est installé chez eux après la nouvelle.
Zusätzliche Übersetzungen
mélancolieArchaïque, en médecine ou en histoire de la médecine : bile noire.
melancholyadjektiv
more melancholy
Komp.
most melancholy
Super.
UK
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɒ.li/
US
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɑː.li/
She had a melancholy expression on her face as she gazed out the window.
Elle avait une expression mélancolique sur le visage en regardant par la fenêtre.
mélancoliqueAu sens de ce qui provoque ou exprime la tristesse.
A melancholy melody drifted through the empty hall.
Une mélodie mélancolique flottait dans le hall vide.
Zusätzliche Übersetzungen
mélancoliqueArchaïque, en médecine ou en histoire de la médecine.

Definitionen

melancholysubstantiv
A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness.
A sense of melancholy settled over them after the news.
A reflective or gloomy mood.
He spoke in a quiet melancholy, recalling the past.
(archaic, historical) Black bile, thought in ancient and medieval medicine to cause depression or sadness.
Physicians of the Renaissance attributed his sorrow to an imbalance of melancholy in his body.
melancholyadjektiv
Having a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
She had a melancholy expression on her face as she gazed out the window.
Causing or expressing sadness or sorrow.
A melancholy melody drifted through the empty hall.
(archaic, medicine) Relating to or caused by black bile, one of the four bodily humours once believed to influence temperament.
In medieval texts, a melancholy temperament was linked to an excess of cold, dry black bile.