MELANCHOLY

somber, sombre, melancholy

(adjective) grave or even gloomy in character; “solemn and mournful music”; “a suit of somber black”; “a somber mood”

melancholy, melancholic

(adjective) characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; “growing more melancholy every hour”; “her melancholic smile”; “we acquainted him with the melancholy truth”

melancholy

(noun) a feeling of thoughtful sadness

melancholy

(noun) a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

melancholy (comparative more melancholy, superlative most melancholy)

(literary) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Synonyms

• (thoughtful sadness): melancholic

• See also sad

Noun

melancholy (countable and uncountable, plural melancholies)

(historical) Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.

Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

Source: Wiktionary

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Mel"an*chol*y, n. Etym: [OE. melancolie, F. mélancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. Malice, and 1st Gall.]

1. Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

2. Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

3. Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness. [Obs.] "Hail, divinest Melancholy !" Milton.

4. Ill nature. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mel"an*chol*y, a.

1. Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal. Shak.

2. Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.

3. Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired. [Obs.] Bp. Reynolds.

4. Favorable to meditation; somber. A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered. Evelin.

Syn.

– Gloomy; sad; dispirited; low-spirited; downhearted; unhappy; hypochondriac; disconsolate; heavy, doleful; dismal; calamitous; afflictive.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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