French-English translations for mélancolique

melancholicIf we understand rightly what Europeans are saying to us, we have no right, honourable Members, to allow this anniversary to be a nostalgic or melancholic one. Nous n'avons pas le droit, Mesdames et Messieurs, si nous entendons bien ce que disent les peuples européens, que cet anniversaire soit un anniversaire nostalgique ou mélancolique. I hope it will not be a wasted effort, because a thinker from my country used to say that wasted effort leads to melancholy, and at this time of night I do not want to get melancholic. J'espère que ce ne sera pas un effort inutile, car un penseur de mon pays disait que l'effort inutile mène à la mélancolie et, à cette heure tardive, je ne tiens pas à devenir mélancolique.
moody

pensive
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wistfulHis eyes grew wistful as he recalled his university days
depressed
dour
gloomy
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The cavern was gloomya gloomy temper or countenance
lugubrious
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The poor lighting and sparse maintenance, plus the rarefied traffic on its wide boulevards, made the effect of Pyongyang on the tourist distinctly lugubriousHis client’s lugubrious expression tipped off the detective that something lurked beneath her optimistic words

melancholy
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I hope it will not be a wasted effort, because a thinker from my country used to say that wasted effort leads to melancholy, and at this time of night I do not want to get melancholic. J'espère que ce ne sera pas un effort inutile, car un penseur de mon pays disait que l'effort inutile mène à la mélancolie et, à cette heure tardive, je ne tiens pas à devenir mélancolique. Melancholy people dont talk much
mournful
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sad
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She gets sad when hes awayThe puppy had a sad little faceIts a sad fact that most rapes go unreported

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