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Recent Examples of melancholia
Their melancholia was the uncertainty inherent in a time of enormous change.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Her husband apparently suffers from melancholia and has been confined to an asylum for many years, so don’t expect a Save the Date to land in your mailbox anytime soon.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 13 July 2025
Trousdale’s songs adroitly address female empowerment, loss, heartbreak, anxiety, mental health and other subjects while striking a winning balance between melancholia and buoyancy.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
Marked by a graceful melancholia and filled with daunting technical feats, especially the director’s signature, logistics-defying long takes, his films are beautifully realized meditations on nostalgia and loss in which the cinema tends to be a character itself.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 28 July 2025
Her husband apparently suffers from melancholia and has been confined to an asylum for many years, so don’t expect a Save the Date to land in your mailbox anytime soon.
—Andy Swift, TVLine, 13 July 2025
Trousdale’s songs adroitly address female empowerment, loss, heartbreak, anxiety, mental health and other subjects while striking a winning balance between melancholia and buoyancy.
—George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 May 2025
Marked by a graceful melancholia and filled with daunting technical feats, especially the director’s signature, logistics-defying long takes, his films are beautifully realized meditations on nostalgia and loss in which the cinema tends to be a character itself.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for melancholia
Noun
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The film’s empathetic interest in individual, often eccentric human lives gives it a warmth that overrides the underlying melancholy of the material, making for a pleasingly unsentimental crowdpleaser.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
24 Mar. 2026
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Some acknowledged the possibility that melancholy could be inherited.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Lane takes his place among the best, his Willy Loman a powder keg of frustration and disappointment and deep, deep sadness.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
9 Apr. 2026
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Underneath the fantastical conceit is this current of sadness, of loneliness, a yearning for connection.—
Emma Alpern,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Successive setbacks have predisposed Hungarians to pessimism, even self-pity.—
Isaac Stanley-Becker,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2026
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Or perhaps he is known less by image and more as a disembodied voice, glitching his way across vintage Kanye tracks and rumbling words of self-pity opposite Taylor Swift.—
Mitch Therieau,
Pitchfork,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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And just as Nicky is the only person who can see Morgan’s goodness inside her many flaws, only Morgan recognizes Nicky’s unhappiness buried within his bizarre decision to be a priest.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
10 Apr. 2026
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The Gallup polling found that this growing group of independents tends to be motivated by unhappiness with the party in power — a dynamic that could benefit Democrats this year but doesn’t promise lasting loyalty.—
Joey Cappelletti,
Chicago Tribune,
9 Apr. 2026
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Colors are accurate and saturated, doing justice to the bright vibrance of Frieren on Crunchyroll on my iPad Air and the dark gloominess of Ball x Pit on my Switch 2 via an adapter.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
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His gloominess seemed to make no sense.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Inside the visiting locker room at Frost Bank Center on Thursday night, there was no sense of dejection from the Detroit Pistons.—
Jared Weiss,
New York Times,
11 Mar. 2026
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As the score tilted more and more and more heavily in Memphis’ favor Friday night, Mavericks’ fans’ dejection level probably depended on their larger-picture perspective.—
Brad Townsend,
Dallas Morning News,
27 Feb. 2026
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Anna ends up at a hotel bar, ordering a burger and a beer, eating her sorrows away.—
Jocelyn Noveck,
Boston Herald,
10 Apr. 2026
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Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Doom and gloom is hardly ever the prevailing mood at CinemaCon, however.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
13 Apr. 2026
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Zhe says the brightening isn't just a doom-and-gloom signal for skywatchers.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Melancholia.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/melancholia. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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