Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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melancholy | Yes | Yes | No | No |
humor | Yes | No | Yes | No |
melancholy (noun) | humor (noun) |
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a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy | the quality of being funny |
a feeling of thoughtful sadness | the trait of appreciating (and being able to express) the humorous |
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed | the liquid parts of the body |
(Middle Ages) one of the four fluids in the body whose balance was believed to determine your emotional and physical state | |
a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter | |
a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling |
melancholy (adjective) | humor (adjective) |
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grave or even gloomy in character | |
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |
melancholy (verb) | humor (verb) |
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put into a good mood |