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Synonyms for melancholy
ˈmɛl ənˌkɒl imelan·cho·ly

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  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 Antonyms1.0 / 1 vote

  1. melancholyadjective

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

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

Princeton's WordNet2.4 / 7 votes

  1. melancholynoun

    a feeling of thoughtful sadness

    Synonyms:
    black bile

    Antonyms:
    cheerful, glad

  2. melancholynoun

    a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

    Synonyms:
    black bile

    Antonyms:
    cheerful, glad

  3. black bile, melancholyadjective

    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, melancholicadjective

    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, 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

    Antonyms:
    cheerful, glad

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  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  
  2. sadnessnoun

    Submitted by Lucifee_97 on May 27, 2022  

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. melancholyadjective

    Synonyms:
    despondent, hypochondriac, depressed, disconsolate, dispirited

  2. melancholynoun

    Synonyms:
    despondency, hypochondria, dejection, disconsolation, melancholia

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "melancholy":

    melancholic

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  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. 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.

  2. Adamo Macri:

    Suspicion and uneasiness gives an overall mysterious tone or even atonality to a piece, as in object in contention, something I always evaluate. Along with melancholy or disappointment, all of which are valid human emotions and sensitivities.”

  3. Townes Van Zandt:

    I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

  4. James Russell Lowell:

    They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy.

  5. John Milton:

    Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!


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