Synonyms

1. black bile

Sentence Examples

1. I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
2. To cheer her melancholy spirits, Catherine took her mare, Clover, and the pair trotted out in the bright May sun.
3. Although these have been our companions before, there is an increase in their intensity and combined with fragile emotions, melancholy and sorrows rise to the surface.
4. I could hear the melancholy oozing through the burn of the scotch.
5. The song went on, the lyrics melancholy, the voice clear and precise.
6. Her violet eyes peered out from underneath its hood, as melancholy and thoughtful as he remembered.
7. It was then a busy, populous university town, something more than the enterprising rival of Salamanca, and altogether a very different place from the melancholy, silent, deserted Alcalá the traveller sees now as he goes from Madrid to Saragossa.
8. The blood pooled onto the ground and steam rose to the sky in a disorderly stream of white, which added a blackish-red melancholy to the terrain.
9. And out of this melancholy water arose a forest of tall eastern trees, like a wilderness of dreams.
10. Something about his melancholy tone silenced Lance.