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                    as in sad
                                                
              
          
                                                      causing unhappiness                                       
              
                             the melancholy thought of having to say good-bye to all the friends he had made over the summer                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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                    as in depressed
                                                
              
          
                                                      feeling unhappiness                                       
              
                             they were a bit melancholy after their youngest child left for college                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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                    as in thoughtful
                                                
              
          
                                                      given to or marked by long, quiet thinking                                       
              
                             a melancholy period in the artist's life that is reflected in his work                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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as in sadness
                                      
              
          
                                                      a state or spell of low spirits                                       
              
                             the bleakness of winter sometimes gives me cause for melancholy                         
                
                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
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