melancholy

mélancolie

Tristesse profonde et silencieuse, souvent ressentie en pensant à sa vie ou au passé.

En anglais simple : A deep, quiet sadness, often while thinking about your life or the past.

• A quiet melancholy filled the room.
• Old photographs brought a sense of melancholy.
• He could not explain his sudden melancholy.

Synonymes : sadness, sorrow

Contraires : happiness, joy

Expressions courantes : a deep melancholy, sense of melancholy, filled with melancholy

mélancolique

Qui éprouve une tristesse profonde et silencieuse.

En anglais simple : Feeling deeply and quietly sad.

• She felt melancholy that evening.
• He became melancholy after his friend left.
• Why do you seem so melancholy today?

Synonymes : sad, sorrowful, gloomy

Contraires : cheerful, happy

Expressions courantes : feel melancholy, melancholy mood, melancholy person

triste, mélancolique

Qui fait ressentir une tristesse profonde et silencieuse.

En anglais simple : Making you feel deeply and quietly sad.

• It was a melancholy song.
• The film tells a melancholy story of lost love.
• A melancholy tune drifted through the empty house.

Synonymes : sad, sorrowful

Contraires : cheerful, uplifting

Expressions courantes : melancholy song, melancholy news, melancholy story