noun. Sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom.

noun. Pensive reflection or contemplation.

noun. undefined

noun. Black bile.

noun. An emotional state characterized by sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from an excess of black bile.

adjective. Feeling, showing, or expressing depression of the spirits; sad or dejected. synonym: sad.

adjective. Causing or tending to cause sadness or gloom.

adjective. Pensive; thoughtful.

noun. Same as melancholia; in old use, insanity of any kind.

noun. A gloomy state of mind, particularly when habitual or of considerable duration; depression of spirits arising from grief or natural disposition; dejection; sadness. Also, in technical use, melancholia.

noun. Sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.

noun. Bitterness of feeling; ill nature.

noun. Synonyms Hypochondria, gloominess, despondency.

Produced by melancholia or madness of any kind.

Affected by depression of spirits; depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy.

Given to contemplation; thoughtful; pensive. See I., 3.

Producing or fitted to produce sadness or gloom; sad; mournful: as, a melancholy fact; a melancholy event.

Grave or gloomy in character; suggestive of melancholy; somber.

noun. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.

noun. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

noun. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.

noun. Ill nature.

adjective. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

adjective. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive.

adjective. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.

adjective. Favorable to meditation; somber.

adjective. Affected with great sadness or depression.

noun. Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

noun. Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

noun. a feeling of thoughtful sadness

noun. a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

adjective. grave or even gloomy in character

noun. a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

adjective. characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

"I hate to overuse the word 'melancholy,' but it is at this point."

melancholy euryomia  melancholy flycatcher  

cheerless  depressing  sad  uncheerful  

melancholic  sadness  

bodily fluid  body fluid  depression  humor  humour  

dread  gloomy  mournful  quiet  sad  

absorption  abstraction  aching heart  afflictive  agony