| melancholy | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy |
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| melancholy | a feeling of thoughtful sadness |
| melancholy | a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed |
| melancholy | characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
| melancholy | perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers |