1. melancholy - Noun
2. melancholy - Adjective
3. melancholy - Adjective Satellite
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
Ill nature.
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
Favorable to meditation; somber.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Charles Baudelaire
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations. Charles Dickens
This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. William Butler Yeats
Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half. François Fénelon
Money in the purse dispels melancholy. German Proverb
You need firm care to cure deep melancholy. Sicilian Proverb