Melancholy vs Heartbroken - What's the difference?
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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:
Suffering from sorrow, especially after a failed romance
Melancholy is a related term of heartbroken.
As adjectives the difference between melancholy and heartbroken
is that melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression while heartbroken is suffering from sorrow, especially after a failed romance.As a noun melancholy
is (historical) black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.melancholy
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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 .
heartbroken
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Adjective
(en adjective)- When he told me he didn't want to see me anymore, I was heartbroken
