melancholy

Speech parts

1. melancholy - Noun

2. melancholy - Adjective

3. melancholy - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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 dictionary

Synonyms

melancholic unhappy sad dismal gloomy somber dispirited disconsolate doleful downhearted moody milt downer black blue devils
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Antonyms

merry jubilee saturnalia jolly corky allegro
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Hypernyms

depression humor sadness humour body fluid bodily fluid

Hyponyms

brooding gloom gloominess somberness sombreness pensiveness

Phrases with the word

morbid melancholy melancholy note melancholy woodpecker uterine melancholy melancholy chime

Examples

I 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

Close letter words and terms

melancholize melancholly melancholous melancholy chime melancholy note melancholy thistle