Melancholy vs Unmoved - What's the difference?
melancholy | unmoved |
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:
not physically moved
not affected emotionally, or not showing emotion
not sympathetic; uncaring
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, year=2012
, date=June 19
, author=Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Ukraine
, work=BBC Sport
As adjectives the difference between melancholy and unmoved
is that melancholy is affected with great sadness or depression while unmoved is not physically moved.As a noun melancholy
is black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.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 .
unmoved
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Adjective
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