Antonyms for melancholy
ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl imelan·cho·ly

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1. melancholy

   Grief is acute mental pain resulting from loss, misfortune, or deep disappointment. Grief is more acute and less enduring than sorrow. Sorrow and grief are for definite cause; sadness and melancholy may arise from a vague sense of want or loss, from a low state of health, or other ill-defined cause; sadness may be momentary; melancholy is more enduring, and may become chronic. Affliction expresses a deep heart-sorrow and is applied also to the misfortune producing such sorrow; mourning most frequently denotes sorrow publicly expressed, or the public expression of such sorrow as may reasonably be expected; as, it is common to observe thirty days of mourning on the death of an officer of state.

   See synonyms for HAPPINESS.

   Synonyms:
   affliction, distress, grief, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, wo

   Preposition:
   Grief at a loss; for a friend.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. melancholyadjective

   Antonyms:
   lively, sprightly, gladsome, gleesome, blithesome, happy, cheerful, gamesome, mirthful, merry

   Synonyms:
   gloomy, sad, dejected, disconsolate, dismal, moody, hypochondriacal, cast down

Matched Categories

1. • Depression
   • Sadness

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.4 / 7 votes

1. melancholynoun

   a feeling of thoughtful sadness

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

   Synonyms:
   black bile

2. melancholynoun

   a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

   Synonyms:
   black bile

3. black bile, melancholyadjective

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

   Antonyms:
   glad, cheerful

   Synonyms:
   black bile

4. melancholy, melancholicadjective

   characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

   "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

   Synonyms:
   sombre, somber, melancholic

5. somber, sombre, melancholyadjective

   grave or even gloomy in character

   "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

   Synonyms:
   sombre, somber, drab, melancholic, sober

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1. melancholyadjective

   Synonyms:
   despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited

2. melancholynoun

   Synonyms:
   despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. melancholy

   Synonyms:
   Melancholia, major depressive disorder-recurrent [DSM-IV/dc-296.3x]
   

2. melancholy

   Synonyms:
   melan-Greek, black; chole, bile

How to use melancholy in a sentence?

1. Abraham Myerson:

   Society expects man to be a passive social animal who believes like the People of the Field in "Jurgen" that "to do what you always have done" and "what is expected of you" are the twin rules of life. This, is course, is not true. The wanton crucifixion of impulses, the unnecessary blocking and frustration of the drives and urges, are an evil that reflects itself in sophistication, ennui and boredom, dissatisfaction, melancholy, fatigue, anxiety and neurosis.

2. Aimee Osbourne:

   It’s been a frustrating journey, a lot of trial and error. For years it felt like I was swimming in the ocean, all by Aimee Osbourne, i’ve lived through a lot of dark environments one way or another while growing up and that has influenced my songwriting. And, yes, I suppose melancholy is a running theme. [ But ] I never had to battle for my identity. I have always been me.

3. Juda Engelmayer:

   It's scaring him, i think he's melancholy. He's very, very low right now.

4. Anatole France:

   All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.

5. James Henry Leigh Hunt:

   Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.

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