2007-02-20 03:57:05 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
AS in melon and cauliflower?
2007-02-20 04:00:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Melancholy is 'choler' and like blood or brain power, everyone has some of it The mood we allow to dominate becomes a part of the personality.Thus , there are people who 'blow hot and cold' or are temperamental.Some always have the blues or are melancholic.Some people are a mixture of temperaments.Melancholy is a sadness that often the person experiencing cannot explain; and it may be hormonal or according to the moon etc.
2007-02-20 05:08:35 · answer #2 · answered by Aoiffe337 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
mel·an·chol·y (mÄl'Én-kÅl'Ä)
n.
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom:
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from black bile.
adj.
Affected with or marked by depression of the spirits; sad. See synonyms at sad.
Tending to promote sadness or gloom: a letter with some melancholy news.
Pensive; thoughtful.
Melancholy is also the name of a book and film, I believe
2007-02-20 04:04:42 · answer #3 · answered by SOS 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Melancholy is a feeling that combines sad, blue, and just plain pthhhhhhhhhhhh.
2007-02-20 05:28:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
mel·an·cho·li·a
mel·an·cho·li·a [mèllÉn ká¹lee É]
n
depression: depression as a form of psychiatric disorder (archaic)
[Early 17th century. From late Latin (see melancholy).]
-mel·an·cho·li·ac [mèllÉn ká¹lee à k], n adj
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mel·an·chol·y
mel·an·chol·y [méllÉn kòllee]
adj
feeling or causing pensive sadness: feeling or making somebody feel a thoughtful or gentle sadness
n
1. pensive sadness: thoughtful or gentle sadness
2. gloomy character: the gloomy character of somebody said to have an excess of black bile, one of the four bodily humors that were once thought to determine people’s health and emotional state (archaic)
3. (archaic) See black bile
[14th century. Directly or via French mélancholie from late Latin melancholia , from Greek melankholia , literally “black bile,” from melan- , the stem of melas “black” + kholÄ “bile.”]
-mel·an·chol·i·ly, adv
-mel·an·chol·i·ness, n
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2007-02-20 04:06:37 · answer #5 · answered by Sophist 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A sense of deep sadness or depression.
ie - "What's wrong with you ?"
"Oh not much, I'm just feeling a bit melancholy"
2007-02-20 05:23:28 · answer #6 · answered by Iron Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sadness. example..Melancholy eyes would be sad looking eyes.
Its also the name of The Smashing Pumpkins album which is realy good!!!
2007-02-20 04:02:32 · answer #7 · answered by Girl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you're melancholy, this may help you out of it:
What do you get when you mate a Honey Dew with Lassie?
Melon-Collie Babies.
2007-02-20 04:28:51 · answer #8 · answered by Daniel J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A deep feeling of sadness
2007-02-20 04:00:39 · answer #9 · answered by Paul B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
better said as a feeling of thoughtful sadness. . .wasn't there a poem on that? the frog and the nightingale. . .studied it @ school
2007-02-20 04:02:29 · answer #10 · answered by TheAnand.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the feeling of utmost saddness, kind of like having to go to a funeral everyday and witness uncontrolable emotion
2007-02-22 11:37:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋