Melancholy vs Apprehensive - What's the difference?
melancholy | apprehensive |
Affected with great sadness or depression.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=1 (historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
*, Bk.I, New York 2001, p.148:
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
* 1593 , (William Shakespeare), , V. i. 34:
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
As adjectives the difference between melancholy and apprehensive
is that melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression while apprehensive is anticipating something with anxiety or fear.As a noun melancholy
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Adjective
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Synonyms
* (thoughtful sadness) (l) * See alsoNoun
(melancholies)- Melancholy , cold and dry, thick, black, and sour,is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
- My mind was troubled with deep melancholy .
apprehensive
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Adjective
(en adjective)- this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
- More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.