Defenition of the word melancholy

• Defenition of the word melancholy

  • A longing for the past, often idealized.
  • a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
  • a feeling of thoughtful sadness
  • a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
  • characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
  • grave or even gloomy in character
  • characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

Synonyms for the word melancholy

• • black bile
  • dejected
  • dejection
  • depressed
  • depression
  • despondent
  • dismal
  • down
  • down in the dumps
  • downhearted
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • low
  • melancholic
  • miserable
  • sad
  • sadness
  • sorrow
  • the blues
  • unhappiness
  • unhappy

Similar words in the melancholy

• • melancholy
  • melancholy's
  • sad

Hyponyms for the word melancholy

• • brooding
  • gloom
  • gloominess
  • heavyheartedness
  • pensiveness
  • somberness
  • sombreness
  • Weltschmerz
  • world-weariness

Hypernyms for the word melancholy

• • bodily fluid
  • body fluid
  • depression
  • humor
  • humour
  • liquid body substance
  • sadness
  • unhappiness

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