melancholic

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This view of the world makes me feel ultra-melancholic, almost depressed, but I have a valve that limits my exposure to John, Richard et al. Perhaps Wallace had a faulty BS valve, and perhaps this is what kept feeding the darkness in his head.

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  1. adjective Affected with or subject to melancholy.
  2. adjective Of or relating to melancholia.

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  • This view of the world makes me feel ultra-melancholic, almost depressed, but I have a valve that limits my exposure to John, Richard et al. Perhaps Wallace had a faulty BS valve, and perhaps this is what kept feeding the darkness in his head. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • Pretty soon they would be making this twisted, melancholic, psychedelia before creating —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
  • He offers as an example the archived color slides of Jewish life in the Lodz Ghetto taken from a Nazi photographer's perspective presenting a melancholic, "dominant narrative of hopelessness and victimization." —  ArchivesBlogs
  • I don't know in which genre you might catalogue my music, but if I had to to do it, I guess It's a kind of melancholic danceable electro-EBM. —  Side-Line news feed
  • Presented on Vacilando are thirteeen compositions of country-blues which are mostly melancholic, with moments tinged with optimism, most notably in 'New Imperial Grand Blue'. —  Drowned In Sound // Feed
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  1. Formerly also melencholick, malencolik; = French mélancolique = Provencal melancolic, malencolic = Spanish melancólico = Portuguese melancolico = Italian melancolico, malincolico (cf. D. G. melankolisch = Swedish melankolisk = Danish melankolsk), from Latin melancholicus, from Greek μελαγχολικός, having black bile, from μελαγχολία, black bile, melancholy: see melancholy.
 

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