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melancholic

[mel-uhn-kol-ik] / ˌmɛl ənˈkɒl ɪk /


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And hitting all his elements perfectly to Chopin's haunting, melancholic "Nocturne No. 20" earned the young skater his season's best score of 85.65 points and a place in Friday's free skating final.

From Barron's

It's a folk-pop song telling a melancholic story of lost love.

From BBC

In “The Rest of Our Lives,” Tom is a modern melancholic, and some of the stops on his journey are to see people he wistfully associates with his youth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Zardoya’s yearning for a love lost crescendoes, and is most devastating, in the piano ballad “Back to You”; but it seems as though even her darkest, most melancholic moments are touched by the fae.

From Los Angeles Times

Andrew Panton, who owns the aircraft and the centre, is melancholic.

From BBC