Melancholy vs Melon - What's the difference?
melancholy | melon |
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:
(countable) Any of various plants of the family Cucurbitaceae grown for food, generally not including the cucumber.
# Genus Cucurbita , various musk melons, including the honeydew and the cantaloupes, and the horned melon.
# Genus , the watermelon and others
# Genus Benincasa , a winter melon
# Genus , the bitter melon
(uncountable) The fruit of such plants.
(uncountable) A light pinkish orange colour, like that of some melon flesh.
(in the plural, slang) Breasts.
* 2013 , K. L. Brady, Got a Right to Be Wrong (page 107)
(countable, slang) The head.
(countable, Australia, New Zealand, derogatory) A member of the Green Party, or similar environmental group.
(countable) A mass of adipose tissue found in the forehead of all toothed whales, used to focus and modulate vocalizations.
Of a light pinkish orange colour, like that of melon flesh.
(chemistry) The result of heptazine being polymerized with the tri-s-triazine units linked through an amine (NH) link.
As nouns the difference between melancholy and melon
is that melancholy is (historical) black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies while melon is melon.As an adjective melancholy
is affected with great sadness or depression.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 .
melon
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(wikipedia melon)Etymology 1
(etyl) melon, from .Noun
- “Wait a minute.” I said. “James with another woman? Mommy, that doesn't even sound right?” “It's true. I caught him squeezing her melons .”
