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
Starring Challengers heartthrob Josh O’Connor as a melancholic tomb raider with a divining skill for finding hidden treasures, the film examines themes of love, loss, and the ethics of history.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
The album amalgamates this twilight mood into a cohesive, moody, sometimes melancholic, often achingly pretty 34 minutes of music.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Her melancholic and introspective tone set her apart from the more exuberant pop music of her peers.
—Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2024
Weems then read a spoken word piece, backed by a beautiful melancholic string arrangement.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Nov. 2024
The album amalgamates this twilight mood into a cohesive, moody, sometimes melancholic, often achingly pretty 34 minutes of music.
—Katie Bain, Billboard, 1 Nov. 2024
Her melancholic and introspective tone set her apart from the more exuberant pop music of her peers.
—Thomas Adamson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2024
Weems then read a spoken word piece, backed by a beautiful melancholic string arrangement.
—Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholic
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Of what relevance is an absurdist fable, written in German, about a sad man who transforms into an insect, to an American teenager in the twenty-first century?Harper's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
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The sad scenes that accompanied Rooney’s final game at Oxford felt a long way from the surge of optimism that greeted his arrival in Devon on a three-year contract in May.Richard Amofa, The Athletic, 1 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, workers in the Bayou State are some of the most depressed in the nation, reporting a happiness index of 34.81.Therese Boudreaux | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Dec. 2024
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When Do Da-hae (The 8 Show’s Chun Woo-hee), a seemingly demure con artist with designs on the Bok’s riches, starts to flirt with him, a struggling Gwi-ju is too depressed to care.Kayti Burt, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
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In 2018, Butler was months away from potentially becoming a free agent (as is the case now) and was unhappy with the Timberwolves (as is the case now, just with the Heat).Tim Reynolds, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2025
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That’s a sure sign coaches are unhappy with aspects of a player’s performance.Rob Rossi, The Athletic, 3 Jan. 2025
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The melancholy voiceover from Elsa Dutton (Isabel May) from 1883 is a nice touch, too, a monologue about the suffering people go through to maintain their control and exploitation of land.Ben Rosenstock, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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Jim Jarmusch’s deeply romantic, deeply melancholy Only Lovers Left Alive stars Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as a vampiric couple who are currently living on different continents, because what’s a little bit of distance when time doesn’t have meaning.James Grebey, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
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Willow Avalon The metaphorical equivalent of a heartbroken singer-songwriter debutante ball is attacking live stages and streaming platforms in overwhelming waves.Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 29 Dec. 2024
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However, our team is heartbroken to know these new horses have been without proper food and care for so long.Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
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Yet their return to the longer format in the second half of 2024 was almost unremittingly miserable.Tim Ellis, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Here’s a player who never takes his foot off the gas, who can make life miserable for the opposition in front of the net and in the corners, and who fills the net to boot.Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
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Her observations as a woman once romantically involved with the two of them at the same time, confirm their masculine inability to speak their feelings out loud unless they are veiled in mournful songs.Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 28 Nov. 2024
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Very few directors working today can put across a movie like Gladiator II as convincingly, which perhaps explains why the sequel — for all its barbaric violence and the plaintive, at times stirring, discussions about justice and democracy — doesn’t have the mournful quality that the first film did.Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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New Year’s Eve revelers take note: There’s a good chance the roadways could be covered with snow – or worse, ice.Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 30 Dec. 2024
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Election years offer even more chances than usual to make bad guesses.Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Melancholic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholic. Accessed 9 Jan. 2025.
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