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Joachim cast him a gentle glance and smiled a curious smile— melancholy and slightly mocking, it seemed—but why, he kept to himself.†
Chpt 3.2 *

melancholy = a sad feeling or manner
He tends to melancholy.†
Chpt 3.4
His vice is not good for him—but otherwise, it would be no vice—tobacco only makes him melancholy.†
Chpt 3.4
It has been said that on occasion he succumbs to the temptation of stealing them, and then slips into melancholy.†
Chpt 3.4
People said that Behrens, who idolized her, had been so overwhelmed by the blow that he had temporarily fallen into a strange melancholy and had been seen walking the streets giggling, gesticulating, and talking to himself.†
Chpt 4.7
and suddenly he shrugged and said, "Ridiculous!" and cast aside the delicate little song as tasteless and insipidly sentimental—rejecting it, however, with a certain austere melancholy.†
Chpt 4.8
Hans Castorp remembered what Settembrini had said about the director's "melancholy" and tendency to "vice," even calling him a "confused soul."†
Chpt 4.9
On Tuesday or Wednesday, however, he would depart, and leave Joachim behind alone, poor Joachim, for whom Rhadamanthus had decreed who-knew-how-many more months and whose gentle black eyes dimmed with melancholy every time Hans Castorp made a passing reference to his approaching departure.†
Chpt 4.10
I don't like to see him smoking, either, it makes me uneasy somehow, because I know it's not good for him and makes him melancholy.†
Chpt 4.10
And yet he felt some sympathy for the melancholy fate of his clairvoyant great-aunt.†
Chpt 5.2
The constituent element of his love, therefore, was not the amiable, tender melancholy found in our little song.†
Chpt 5.4
Frau Iltis had apparently become a widow— in any case, she had of late been enjoying the company of a "fiance," who had a melancholy, subservient look about him, and whose presence did not prevent her from simultaneously receiving the attentions of Captain Miklosich, a man with a hooknose, waxed moustaches, swelling chest, and menacing eyes.†
Chpt 5.4
I'm beginning to feel melancholy," he added, rubbing his eyes with his gigantic hands.†
Chpt 5.6
I've joined you in a cup of coffee, and certainly it tasted good—but suddenly it just comes over me and I get melancholy.†
Chpt 5.6
In the melancholy mood that had suddenly come over him, his neck vertebrae seemed to protrude even more than usual.†
Chpt 5.6
Now and then, when the director was in the mood and not melancholy from tobacco, he might actually use the occasion of an injection for a little conversation, which Hans Castorp knew how to steer along the following lines: "I still enjoy thinking back to that pleasant little chat we had quite by happenstance over coffee in your rooms that day last autumn, Director Behrens.†
Chpt 6.1
Is it melancholy mirth at the high-point?†
Chpt 6.2
Melancholy mirth and mirthful melancholy—that's the reason why those primitives are cheering and dancing around the flames.†
Chpt 6.2
Melancholy mirth and mirthful melancholy—that's the reason why those primitives are cheering and dancing around the flames.†
Chpt 6.2
"Greetings, boys!" he said in a dull voice that was a further indication of a very languid mood—melancholy, general resignation.†
Chpt 6.4
Even as he examined the cousins, he went on talking about the matter in a melancholy, resigned tone of voice, for he was such an expert in auscultation that he could simultaneously listen to a patient's interior, talk about something else, and dictate what he had heard to his assistant.†
Chpt 6.4
He was finished now with Joachim; he slipped his stethoscope into the pocket of his smock and rubbed both eyes with his gigantic left hand— a habit of his when he "faded" and felt melancholy.†
Chpt 6.4
Who knows, given the director's melancholy state, how much more balderdash of this sort there would have been, if the sight of Joachim, standing there at undaunted attention, obviously determined to speak— and speak courageously—had not disconcerted him.†
Chpt 6.4
Melancholy hung like a cloud over them, because both were steadily losing vital products of metabolism—Herr Magnus, sugar; Frau Magnus, protein.†
Chpt 6.5
An interesting fellow, brash and melancholy at the same time.†
Chpt 6.5
He had been part of this world too long for that; and it was not he who made use of it against this aggressor, but vice versa; so that everything happened now with a kind of matter-of-fact simplicity—from the first moment when the consul felt a vague suspicion drift over him, emanating from his nephew and telling him that his project was hopeless, until the very end, the final conclusion, to which, admittedly, Hans Castorp could not help appending a melancholy smile.†
Chpt 6.5
It was at this point that the melancholy smile spread over his face.†
Chpt 6.5
Then Frau Ziemssen appeared through the door connecting the rooms, greeted her nephew in the manner people often choose on such occasions, that is, she pretended to be pleasantly surprised to find him here, although her surprise betrayed a certain melancholy, was muffled by strain and silent worry—about Joachim evidently.†
Chpt 6.8
Even the most manly men succumb to credulous, oblivious self-deception; the phenomenon is as natural as it is melancholy when the process of deterioration approaches its fatal end—natural and impersonal and beyond all individual conscious effort, much as the temptation to wander in circles overcomes someone who is lost or sleep ensnares someone freezing to death.†
Chpt 6.8
"something going on"—to quote, with the melancholy reverence one shows to statements made by the dead, a few casual comments of the late Joachim, phrases that faded away long ago, and we are not sure if the reader is quite clear just how long ago that was.†
Chpt 7.1
"Do you still have my interior portrait?" he interrupted in a melancholy voice.†
Chpt 7.3
"Evenin", my boy," said Behrens, who had been engaged in a hushed conversation with Dr. Krokowski and the head nurse, and now greeted him with a melancholy nod and a skew of his little white moustache.†
Chpt 7.5
The director occasionally lent Paravant a hand in his melancholy puttering, even encouraged him in the fixation.†
Chpt 7.6
He called it smoke and mirrors, advised the prosecutor not to take this little game of tag so seriously, not to get so overheated, and spoke of the elastic turning points of which every circle consists, from its nonexistent beginning to its imaginary end, mentioning as well the mirthful melancholy of eternity, which has no permanent direction and keeps coming back onto itself—and spoke with such serene religiosity that it had a brief calming effect on the prosecutor.†
Chpt 7.6
Like everyone else, over the course of his life Hans Castorp had heard one thing or another about arcane natural, or supernatural, phenomena—there has already been mention made of his clairvoyant great-aunt, whose melancholy story had been passed down to him.†
Chpt 7.8
But only eight days later, a group of Dr. Krokowski's assistants—Herr Albin, Frau Stohr, Herr and Frau Magnus— appeared around midnight on Hans Castorp's balcony, where he had lain dozing in the biting chill; and with all the signs of distracted excitement and feverish delight, they told him in a hasty jumble of voices that Elly's Holger had let himself be seen, had shown his head above the shoulder of that somnambulam lady—and he really did have "beautiful brown, brown locks"—and had smiled an unforgettably gentle and melancholy smile before vanishing.†
Chpt 7.8
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?†
Chpt 7.8

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.
Those idealistic powers of resistance to illness and death, whose defeat by the overwhelming forces of base nature so pained Herr Settembrini, were absolutely alien to litre Naphta; and his method for coping with the deterioration of his body was not sorrow and gloom, but scornful high spirits and an unparalleled aggressiveness, a mania for intellectual doubt, negation, and confusion, all of which severely aggravated the other man's melancholy and daily intensified their intellectual arguments.†
Chpt 7.9

melancholy = a sad feeling or manner

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(1) (melancholy)
a sad feeling or manner -- sometimes thoughtfully sad
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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