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melancholy
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    A queenless colony is a pitiful and melancholy community;  (source)
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    His heart was heavy, and he had been melancholy since the previous night.  (source)
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    For Tuck's head tilted to one side, his eyes went soft, and the gentlest smile in the world displaced the melancholy creases of his cheeks.  (source)
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    Line for line, voices followed in simple harmony until the hymn ended in a melancholy murmur.  (source)
    melancholy = sad
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    How she listened at first to the sonorous lamentations of its romantic melancholies reechoing through the world and eternity!†  (source)
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    How did such noble sadness square with the rest of Holger's behavior, Hans Castorp wondered, with his unimaginative childish pranks and silly practical jokes, with that unmelancholy slap, for example, to which the prosecutor had been subjected?†  (source)
    unmelancholy = not sad
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmelancholy means not and reverses the meaning of melancholy. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Diddlediddle dumdum Diddlediddle... —Sad to lose the old friends, Mrs Breen's womaneyes said melancholily.†  (source)
    melancholily = sadly
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    This was such a perfect friend moment, it made her feel kind of melancholy and nostalgic.  (source)
    melancholy = thoughtfully sad
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    How melancholies I am!†  (source)
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    But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,  (source)
    melancholy = sad
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    Melancholy sank into me, whisking away the joy I had just felt with Aunt and Uncle, stunning me with its power.  (source)
    Melancholy = sadness
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    and their ears were down and their whiskers drooped and their tails dragged in the grass, and their leader piped on his slender pipe a melancholy tune.  (source)
    melancholy = sad
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    We know only that in some strange and melancholy way we have become a waste land.  (source)
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