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How many syllables in Melancholy?

melancholy has 4 syllables

melan-choly

a feeling of sadness or depression

There are two vowels (e and o) and six consonants (m, l, n, ch, l, y).

Noun

The rainy weather brought on a sense of melancholy.

Adjective

The melancholy music made me feel sad.

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy.
Melancholy is the twilight of the soul.
Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Melancholy is the most legitimate of all the poetical tones.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sere.
Melancholy is the longing for distance.
Melancholy is that kind of sorrow which has taken on lightness.
Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad.
Melancholy is the best and the worst of things: the best because it is a kind of happiness and the worst because it is a kind of happiness.