All 4 Uses of
melancholy
in
Main Street, by Sinclair Lewis
- She was melancholy at sight of the mousey girls with whom she had "always intended to get acquainted," and the half dozen young men who were ready to fall in love with her.†
Chpt 1melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
- She was the soft, damp, fat, sighing, indigestive, clinging, melancholy, depressingly hopeful kind.†
Chpt 6 *
- "Chilly night, but I like this melancholy gray," he said.†
Chpt 33
- For all his willingness to play there was over him a melancholy which piqued her.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad