Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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world-weariness | Yes | No | No | No |
melancholy | Yes | Yes | No | No |
world-weariness (noun) | melancholy (noun) |
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sadness on thinking about the evils of the world | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy |
a feeling of thoughtful sadness | |
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed |
world-weariness (adjective) | melancholy (adjective) |
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grave or even gloomy in character | |
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness |