transcription, транскрипция: [ melənkɒli ]
1.
You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness.
The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep...
ADJ
2.
Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes. ( LITERARY )
I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
If someone feels or looks melancholy , they feel or look very sad. ( LITERARY )
It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy...
He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.
ADJ