Melancholy

Definition:

• (n.) Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
• (n.) Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
• (n.) Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
• (n.) Ill nature.
• (a.) Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
• (a.) Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
• (a.) Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
• (a.) Favorable to meditation; somber.

Compare melancholy with other words:

lethargic vs. melancholy

apathy vs. melancholy

foreboding vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. wily

disappointing vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. unhappy

melancholy vs. woe

heartrending vs. melancholy

melancholiness vs. melancholy

melancholious vs. melancholy

melancholist vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. spleeny

melancholize vs. melancholy

angst vs. melancholy

anguish vs. melancholy

deary vs. melancholy

ennui vs. melancholy

maudlin vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. misery

doleful vs. melancholy

despondent vs. melancholy

lugubrious vs. melancholy

disconsolate vs. melancholy

blah vs. melancholy

dismal vs. melancholy

chagrin vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. unmoved

melancholy vs. nostalgia

cheerlessness vs. melancholy

itchy vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. miserable

melancholy vs. sorrow

melancholy vs. thoughtful

melancholily vs. melancholy

atrabilarian vs. melancholy

atrabilarious vs. melancholy

melancholia vs. melancholy

glum vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. saturnine

melancholy vs. poignant

depressive vs. melancholy

gloom vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. sprightly

gloaming vs. melancholy

dour vs. melancholy

malaise vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. woebegone

atrabilious vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. yearning

melancholy vs. yearn

downcast vs. melancholy

depressed vs. melancholy

dejection vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. sombre

melancholy vs. somber

gloomy vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. war

melancholy vs. pule

hyp vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. sad

melancholy vs. morose

dash vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. sorry

melancholy vs. overcast

melancholic vs. melancholy

black vs. melancholy

melancholy vs. sadness

depression vs. melancholy