Download the app
educalingo
Search

Meaning of "melancholily" in the English dictionary

Dictionary
DICTIONARY
section

PRONUNCIATION OF MELANCHOLILY

melancholily  [ˈmelənˌkɒlɪlɪ] play
facebooktwitterpinterestwhatsapp

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MELANCHOLILY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Melancholily is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES MELANCHOLILY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of melancholily in the English dictionary

The definition of melancholily in the dictionary is in a melancholy manner.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MELANCHOLILY


burlily
ˈbɜːlɪlɪ
comelily
ˈkʌmlɪlɪ
curlily
ˈkɜːlɪlɪ
godlily
ˈɡɒdlɪlɪ
holily
ˈhəʊlɪlɪ
jollily
ˈdʒɒlɪlɪ
Lillee
ˈlɪlɪ
lily
ˈlɪlɪ
lonelily
ˈləʊnlɪlɪ
lowlily
ˈləʊlɪlɪ
Lyly
ˈlɪlɪ
oilily
ˈɔɪlɪlɪ
piccalilli
ˈpɪkəˌlɪlɪ
saintlily
ˈseɪntlɪlɪ
sicklily
ˈsɪklɪlɪ
sillily
ˈsɪlɪlɪ
statelily
ˈsteɪtlɪlɪ
uglily
ˈʌɡlɪlɪ
ungodlily
ʌnˈɡɒdˈlɪlɪ
unholily
ʌnˈhəʊlɪlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MELANCHOLILY

melanaemia
melancholia
melancholiac
melancholic
melancholically
melancholies
melancholiness
melancholious
melancholy
Melanchthon
Melanesia
Melanesian
melange
melanian
melanic
melanin
melanisation
melanism
melanist
melanistic

WORDS THAT END LIKE MELANCHOLILY

African lily
arum lily
blackberry lily
calla lily
day lily
Easter lily
gild the lily
glory lily
Madonna lily
mariposa lily
Mount Cook lily
Peruvian lily
pond lily
sea lily
slily
sword lily
tiger lily
water lily
white water lily
yellow water lily

Synonyms and antonyms of melancholily in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «melancholily» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR
online translator

TRANSLATION OF MELANCHOLILY

Find out the translation of melancholily to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of melancholily from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «melancholily» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

melancholily
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

melancholily
570 millions of speakers

English

melancholily
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

melancholily
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

melancholily
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

melancholily
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

melancholily
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

melancholily
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mélancoliquement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Melankolily
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

melancholily
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

切な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

melancholily
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Melancholily
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

melancholily
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

melancholily
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उदासिनपणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

melancholily
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

melancholily
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

melancholily
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

melancholily
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

melancholily
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

melancholily
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

melancholily
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

melancholily
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

melancholily
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of melancholily

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLILY»

The term «melancholily» is normally little used and occupies the 137.759 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
0
100%
FREQUENCY
Little used
36
/100
The map shown above gives the frequency of use of the term «melancholily» in the different countries.
Principal search tendencies and common uses of melancholily
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «melancholily».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «MELANCHOLILY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «melancholily» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «melancholily» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about melancholily

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MELANCHOLILY»

Discover the use of melancholily in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to melancholily and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Foreign Quarterly Review
J “ She looked melancholily after the fragments, and Fermer looked as if he would also throw the table after them. “ 'I supposed you had forgotten me long time since,' continued Louise. “ ' But my affectionate letters.' “ ' I thought you only wrote ...
‎1839
2
Dictionary of the Efïk Language, in Two Parts: I. Efïk and ...
Etie ndiibo-ndubo, He sits melancholily. N-dud'-i, n. (Dudi). 1. A pulling ; a drawing ; a dragging. 2. A trace or track where something has been dragged along. Mokut ndudi mi ekpe ndudide ebiit, I see the track where the leopard has dragged ...
Hugh Goldie, 1862
3
The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane].
She looked melancholily after the fragments, and Fermer looked as if he would also throw the table after them. " ' I supposed you had forgotten me long time since/ continued Louise. " ' But my affectionate letters.' " ' I thought you only wrote  ...
John George Cochrane, 1839
4
Local Hope
A collection of forty-three poems, Local Hope is often edgy, sometimes personal, sometimes soulful, and sometimes political; the forms are as varied as their subjects.
Jack Heflin, 2010
5
Letters about the Hudson River: And Its Vicinity. Written in ...
... on the cranium of the present proprietor, as the improvements made in various parts of this “time honoured” and Washington hallowed mansion melancholily demonstrate. The sleeping apartment of Washington and his lady were pointed out ...
Freeman Hunt, 1836
6
Jack Ashore
He had held a short conversation with MrSingleheart, and then, watching his opportunity, dropped quietly under the bows of the three-decker, and displaying a half-guinea, soon learned from a man who was melancholily wringing swabs in the ...
Edward Howard, 1840
7
The Diary ... (1677-1724). Now First Published from the ...
Morning, hasted up to assist his sorrowful widow, and was 'there melancholily employed the whole day. . ' 29. Morning, hasted up to the house of mourning, assisting in the disposal of gloves to ministers, &c. at the sad funeral; he was interred.
Ralph Thoresby, 1830
8
The Ladies' Companion: A Monthly Magazine Embracing ...
In tbe cars, the handsome midshipman sat beside the young lady, and monopolized her attention so successfully, that she seemed to forget the entity of Mr. Boggs, who squatted most melancholily on the seat by the door, all others being ...
‎1843
9
Lodore
Pooh ! you are a child in these matters — all wise, and frave, and most melancholily disapproving as you now look. We shall o very well if you will let us alone — I am breaking him in — he will go beautifully in harness by-and-by — you yourself ...
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1835
10
A general history of Ireland: from the earliet accounts to ...
Unhappily for arts and letters, the Romans adopted the wretched policy of the Greeks, in representing all their enemies as barbarous ; and this fact cannot be more melancholily proved, than by their accounts of these very Carthaginians.
Sylvester O'Halloran, 1778

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MELANCHOLILY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term melancholily is used in the context of the following news items.
1
15 Celebrities Who You Might Not Know Were In '90s TV Commercials
Remember those late '90s Gap commercials where a bunch of models melancholily sang popular old pop songs? Well, Rashida Jones was ... «BuzzFeed, Jul 14»
2
IQ Responds: 'I Watch Made in Chelsea Ironically.'
and the soap opera soundtrack while someone melancholily gazes into the Thames. It even takes the piss out of itself with the MiC afterparties ... «InQuire Live, Jun 14»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Melancholily [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/melancholily>. May 2024 ».
Download the educalingo app
en
English dictionary
Discover all that is hidden in the words on
index
a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z