Synonyms for melancholy
ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl i

Princeton's WordNet(2.43 / 7 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. melancholy(noun)

   a feeling of thoughtful sadness

   Synonyms:
   black bile

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

2. melancholy(noun)

   a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

   Synonyms:
   black bile

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

3. black bile, melancholy(adj)

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

   Synonyms:
   black bile

   Antonyms:
   glad, cheerful

4. melancholy, melancholic(adj)

   characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

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

   Synonyms:
   sombre, somber, melancholic

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

5. somber, sombre, melancholy(adj)

   grave or even gloomy in character

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

   Synonyms:
   sombre, somber, drab, melancholic, sober

   Antonyms:
   cheerful, glad

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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 Antonyms(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. melancholy(a)

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

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

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1. sad

   a feeling of sorrow; normally with no cause

   "for some reason he felt melancholy when she woke up"

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. melancholy(n.)

   Synonyms:
   dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, megrims, vapors, low spirits, depression of spirits

2. melancholy(a.)

   Synonyms:
   dejected, dispirited, depressed, sad, sorrowful, LACKADAISICAL, atrabillous, gloomy, hypochondriac, BLUE, dumpish, mopish, glum, downcast, desponding, down-hearted, chap-fallen, crest-fallen, hypped, low-spirited, cast down, in the dumps, with a long face, down in the mouth, out of sorts

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1. melancholy(a)

   Synonyms:
   despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited

2. melancholy(n)

   Synonyms:
   despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   melancholic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. melancholy

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

2. melancholy

   Synonyms:
   melan-Greek, black; chole, bile

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How to use melancholy in a sentence?

1. Charles Krauthammer:

   As [ Duke of ] Wellington said, ‘ nothing save a battle loss is quite so melancholy as a battle won. ’ We won the battle and now we have to watch the movie.

2. Martin Clayton:

   This drawing shows a certain wistfulness I think, a certain melancholy even, it's not Leonardo, the great philosopher gazing into the distance. It's a flesh and blood man at the end of a career that had achieved a great deal, but also maybe failed to achieve a great deal as well.

3. Arthur Wellesley:

   Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won.

4. Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate:

   Only when we grow up and mature, not just physically but also emotionally, we begin to appreciate that the colossal challenges, the searing sorrow, and the melodramatic melancholy in human life are not there to create agony, anguish and anxiety; but to toughen and to purify the human soul. There is always a purpose behind every act from almighty omnipresent Supreme Power, which we are expected to understand in time, if not right now. This self-realization is a wake up call, a reality check that truly changes our mindset and transforms our behavior thereafter.

5. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. The world is a library in which only the conscious becomes wiser. 2. The world of people You are in the amusement park, gloomy clown fantasy, circus themes everywhere, you feel the grin of awareness forever smiling in the soul. On you is a clown makeup of hypocrisy and a flower of laughter on your clown jacket, it sprinkles with juice and gives insight. You have in your hands a card on one part, that is, the bright side of your personality, on it another person who is a joker is mirrored. You get up from the attraction chair and get into the baby car with a motor. You see a chain carousel of disunity, a horse carousel a symbol of pride, and the fakirs show a fire show, expressing their fiery opinion. You go to the children's playroom everywhere egoists go, play an American game in which many people hold their hands for days on what they want to get. In another room of the disco foam party of life-size puppets who do not want to be themselves, eerie soap bubbles in the form of clown smiles burst with the roar of a terrible clown laugh of awareness. A ghost train travels everywhere for children who will never grow up inside, gaining adults who do not feel reality, who travel on an endless journey of infantility. History, fashion and philosophy have turned reality into a paradoxical anachronism, and morality has fallen into suspended animation here expecting better times. 3. Understanding, accepting alien worlds, your world will expand to an alternative universe. 4. The human world is a fun party in a madhouse, open your eyes - this is a fun evening party in hell. 5. Self-knowledge is a whole archeology. You can find in yourself a whole, lost civilization from a past life. This is not a known inner world that is forgotten due to problems with the outside world. 6. Reality has very gloomy humor, painted with neon luminescent paint of irony and sarcasm hints and clues lurk in them. Does he seem cruel to you? You have no sense of humor. 7. Only death can write you out of this psychiatric hospital. 8. The end of the world is the logical conclusion of human madness. 9. The world is a fun amusement park, gloomy fun reigns here, funny, black melancholy is felt in the air, laughter of madness is heard everywhere. To ride this or that attraction, your understanding and awareness should be of such growth. 10. You feel the mortal humor of reality, its lethal tin. If you cannot stop laughing, then you understand her jokes. You realize that philosophy in this fun, fun, fun hell is very deep, deep, deep shit. You see how you are attached to the rails in this house of terrible, crazy fun, and from that door, which shows a cheerful skull, you will be moved at any moment, cheerful, smiling, children's train of your madness, your fate: chuh-chuh- chuh-tu-tuuu. Yes, these rails, this is a very funny deja vu of reincarnation, in which every time a completely new joke is prepared for you. And as always, your fate, your executioner. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

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