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Synonyms for melancholy
ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl imelan·cho·ly
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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Synonyms:
affliction, distress, grief, mourning, regret, sadness, sorrow, tribulation, trouble, woPreposition:
Grief at a loss; for a friend.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
melancholynoun
a feeling of thoughtful sadness
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black bilemelancholynoun
a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
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black bileblack bile, melancholyadjective
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
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black bilemelancholy, melancholicadjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
"growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
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sombre, somber, melancholicsomber, sombre, melancholyadjective
grave or even gloomy in character
"solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
Synonyms:
sombre, somber, drab, melancholic, sober
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Editors Contribution
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, 2019sadnessnoun
Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022
Dictionary of English Synonymes
melancholynoun
Synonyms:
dejection, depression, gloominess, sadness, gloom, despondency, hypochondria, blues, blue devils, dumps, megrims, vapors, low spirits, depression of spiritsmelancholyadjective
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
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
melancholyadjective
Synonyms:
despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispiritedmelancholynoun
Synonyms:
despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia
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List of paraphrases for "melancholy":
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
melancholy
Synonyms:
Melancholia, major depressive disorder-recurrent [DSM-IV/dc-296.3x]melancholy
Synonyms:
melan-Greek, black; chole, bile
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How to use melancholy in a sentence?
The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
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.
Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.
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.
They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.
Translations for melancholy
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- حزنArabic
- melancholie, melancholickýCzech
- melankoli, melankolskDanish
- Schwermut, Melancholie, schwermütig, melancholischGerman
- μελαγχολίαGreek
- melancolía, melancólica, melancólicoSpanish
- ملایمPersian
- melankolinenFinnish
- mélancolie, mélancoliqueFrench
- mulad, cianalas, truime, dòlasachd, tùirse, èislean, dubhachasScottish Gaelic
- דכדוךHebrew
- melancholiaInterlingua
- piluIndonesian
- þunglyndiIcelandic
- malinconia, malinconico, melancolicoItalian
- 憂鬱, 鬱病Japanese
- ವಿಷಣ್ಣತೆKannada
- 우울, 침울Korean
- matapōuri, kainatu, rāwakiwaki, ruku popoiMāori
- droevig, weemoed, melancholisch, melancholieDutch
- tungsinn, melankoli, svartsynNorwegian
- melancholiaPolish
- melancolia, melancólicoPortuguese
- melancolie, tristețe, melancolicRomanian
- меланхолия, меланхоличныйRussian
- utučenost, снужденост, melankòlija, утученост, snuždenostSerbo-Croatian
- melanchóliaSlovak
- svårmod, melankoli, melankoliskSwedish
- hüzün, melankoli, melankolikTurkish
- u sầuVietnamese
- glumaladälVolapük
- 悲哀, 忧郁Chinese
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