Melancholy(noun) -depression of spirits

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“The next morning Mr.Self, who is unusually tall and very thin and has a long, melancholy face that he once described as looking ‘like a bag full of genitals,’ packed his knapsack” (A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport.

I always thought that melancholy just meant sad, but now I know that melancholy is more like depressed. Through the definition I can now see that Mr. Self’s face is depressed, old and saggy.