Melancholy vs Bittersweet - What's the difference?
melancholy | bittersweet |
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:
Both bitter and sweet.
Expressing contrasting emotions of pain and pleasure.
Of a bittersweet color.
A vine, of the genus , having small orange fruits that open to reveal red seeds.
The (bittersweet nightshade), Solanum dulcamara .
A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
An orange color.
As adjectives the difference between melancholy and bittersweet
is that melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression while bittersweet is both bitter and sweet.As nouns the difference between melancholy and bittersweet
is that melancholy is black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies while bittersweet is a vine, of the genus genus: Celastrus, having small orange fruits that open to reveal red seeds.melancholy
English
Adjective
(en adjective)citation, passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes
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 .
bittersweet
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The break-up was very bittersweet ; they both hurt to end it, but were glad it was over.
