Words similar to melancholy

Example sentences for: melancholy

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This root, or closely related ones, such as * ghol , yield a whole slough of modern English words via various Proto-Germanic and related IE roots: yellow, gild, gall (a yellowish substance), choler, cholera, melancholy black bile, and chlorine , all via Greek kholé yellow bile and Greek chlidé luxury and Proto-Germanic * ghhleid and * glazem: gleam, glint, glimmer, glisten, glass, glaze, gloss, glance, glade, glee, glow, gloaming, glide , and glissade --quite a haul from what is basically a single root!
But then IBM came in on Wednesday night with a melancholy forecast for the next six months, which sent stocks tumbling for much of Thursday until they just stopped.
The soundtrack is melancholy classical piano.
Peanuts, with its neurosis, unrequited love, and melancholy was newsprint Woody Allen.
The decaying, cream-colored building still exudes a certain haughty, if melancholy, grandeur.