| melancholy | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. melancholy | a feeling of thoughtful sadness. |
| ~ sadness, unhappiness | emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being. |
| ~ gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness | a feeling of melancholy apprehension. |
| ~ heavyheartedness | a feeling of dispirited melancholy. |
| ~ pensiveness, brooding | persistent morbid meditation on a problem. |
| ~ weltschmerz, world-weariness | sadness on thinking about the evils of the world. |
| n. (state) | 2. melancholy | a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed. |
| ~ depression | a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. |
| n. (body) | 3. black bile, melancholy | a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. |
| ~ bodily fluid, body fluid, liquid body substance, humour, humor | the liquid parts of the body. |
| adj. | 4. melancholic, melancholy | characterized by or causing or expressing sadness.; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" |
| ~ sad | experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad" |
| adj. | 5. melancholy, somber, sombre | grave or even gloomy in character.; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood" |
| ~ cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy.; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
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