Melancholy vs. Wistful
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Difference Between Melancholy and Wistful
Melancholyadjective
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.Wistfuladjective
Full of longing or yearning.
His eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days.Melancholynoun
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Wistfuladjective
Sad and thoughtful.
Melancholynoun
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Wistfuladjective
full of longing or unfulfilled desire;
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Melancholynoun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
Wistfuladjective
showing pensive sadness;
the sensitive and wistful response of a poet to the gentler phases of beautyMelancholynoun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholynoun
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Melancholyadjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
growing more melancholy every hourher melancholic smilewe acquainted him with the melancholy truth
