How to pronounce melancholy in English

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Pronunciation of Melancholy is Melancholy, m-e-la-nch-o-l-y

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    Melancholy phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'melancholy'

    • Traditional IPA representation of melancholy: /mɛlænkhoʊlj/
    • Modern IPA representation of melancholy: /mɛlænchɒlʌ/

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    List of meaning for melancholy

    a feeling of deep sadness

    melancholy(noun)

    a feeling of thoughtful sadness

    melancholy(noun)

    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

    black bile, melancholy(adj)

    a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

    melancholy, melancholic(adj)

    characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

    "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

    somber, sombre, melancholy(adj)

    grave or even gloomy in character

    "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

    causing unhappiness

    the melancholy thought of having to say good-bye to all the friends he had made over the summer

    feeling unhappiness

    they were a bit melancholy after their youngest child left for college

    given to or marked by long, quiet thinking

    a melancholy period in the artist's life that is reflected in his work

    a state or spell of low spirits

    the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy

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    melancholy in sentence

    1. When Allie plays the violin she creates a tone that is melancholy and plangent, at times quite painfully beautiful.

    2. He writes the most melancholy music!

    3. While Stacy was a bubbly person, her twin, Tracy, was always a melancholy individual.

    4. The melancholy song brought tears to my eyes.

    5. Having been a single mother for many years, Nat was quite melancholy when the last of her children left home.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term melancholy

    Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

    George Santayana

    Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.

    Henry Van Dyke

    It’s been a frustrating journey, a lot of trial and error. For years it felt like I was swimming in the ocean, all by Aimee Osbourne, i’ve lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting. And, yes, I suppose melancholy is a running theme. [ But ] I never had to battle for my identity. I have always been me.

    Aimee Osbourne

    Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

    Arthur Wellesley

    The anticipation is getting closer and closer to my final Open championship and it's going to be a very special time, i feel maybe a little bit melancholy but the memories of all the years playing in the Open will make it pretty happy. I've had a wonderful experience playing here in the Open for these last 40 years.

    Tom Watson

    As [ Duke of ] Wellington said, ‘ nothing save a battle loss is quite so melancholy as a battle won. ’ We won the battle and now we have to watch the movie.

    Charles Krauthammer

    Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

    Francois Fenelon

    When the time came to bring the' Transparent' journey to a close, it was clear that saying goodbye to Maura Pfefferman was our path forward, in this musical finale, we dramatize the death of Maura Pfefferman in an odyssey of comedy and melancholy told through the joyful prism of melody and dance.

    Jill Soloway

    As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work.

    Charles Baudelaire

    All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

    Anatole France

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