Melancholy

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  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
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    dread  gloomy  mournful  quiet  sad  
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