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was melancholy
adjective
Affected with great sadness or depression.
Exact(21)
The music was melancholy.
The theme music for the show was melancholy, shockingly so.
The mood was melancholy, or maybe that was my own.
The graduation was melancholy for Robert, joyous for his son.
Rousseau's vision was melancholy, concentrating on vast sweeps of landscape and looming trees.
The theme, appropriately, was "Melancholy," but the atmosphere was more hilarious than gloomy.
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He's melancholy.
A year earlier, he had been melancholy.
There is melancholy here.
The book manages to be melancholy without being sad.
"People say my plays are melancholy.
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