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Disappointing vs. Melancholy — What's the Difference?

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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