Disappointing vs. Melancholy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Disappointing and Melancholy
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Disappointing
Not up to expectations or hopes
A disappointing test score.
Finished the marathon in a disappointing 12th place.
Melancholy
A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
He had an ability to convey a sense of deep melancholy and yearning through much of his work
An air of melancholy surrounded him
At the centre of his music lies a profound melancholy and nostalgia
Disappointing
Causing disappointment.
Disappointing results / news; a disappointing experience
Melancholy
Having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive
She felt a little melancholy
A dark, melancholy young man with deep-set eyes
Disappointing
Present participle of disappoint
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Melancholy
Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.
Disappointing
Defeating one's expectations or hopes; failing to fulfill one's expectations or hopes; as, a disappointing result; a disappointing crop yield.
Melancholy
Pensive reflection or contemplation.
Disappointing
The act of disappointing someone.
Melancholy
Black bile.
Disappointing
Not up to expectations;
A disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising
Melancholy
An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.
Melancholy
Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected.
Melancholy
Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom
A letter with some melancholy news.
Melancholy
Pensive; thoughtful.
Melancholy
(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
Melancholy
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
Melancholy
(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.
Melancholy people don't talk much.
Melancholy
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Melancholy
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
Melancholy
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Melancholy
Ill nature.
Melancholy
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Melancholy
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
Melancholy
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Melancholy
Favorable to meditation; somber.
A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.
Melancholy
A feeling of thoughtful sadness
Melancholy
A constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
Melancholy
A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
Melancholy
Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness;
Growing more melancholy every hour
Her melancholic smile
We acquainted him with the melancholy truth
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