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"growing more melancholy every hour" "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"adjectivecharacterized by or causing or expressing sadness
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adjectivegrave or even gloomy in character
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nouna humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
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nouna constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressedtype of:
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nouna feeling of thoughtful sadnesstype of:
Definition that contains melancholy
- down filled with melancholy and despondency
- blue filled with melancholy and despondency
- low filled with melancholy and despondency
- depressed filled with melancholy and despondency
- blues a type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- gloomy filled with melancholy and despondency
- grim filled with melancholy and despondency
- melancholy a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
- gloom an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
- gloom a feeling of melancholy apprehension