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Melancholy

Melancholy Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Melancholy? [n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy [n] a feeling of thoughtful sadness [n] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed [adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Melancholy: black bile \| melancholic \| sad Related Terms \| Find terms related to Melancholy: absorption \| abstraction \| aching heart \| agony \| agony of mind \| anguish \| atrabiliar \| atrabilious \| bale \| beetle-browed \| bitterness \| black \| black-browed \| blase \| bleeding heart \| blue \| blues \| boredness \| boredom \| bouderie \| broken heart \| brown study \| cheerless \| cheerlessness \| close study \| concentration \| contemplativeness \| crestfallen \| crushing \| dark \| deep thought \| dejected \| dejectedness \| dejection \| depressed \| depressing \| depression \| depth of misery \| desolation \| despair \| desperation \| despondency \| despondent \| discomposing \| disconsolate \| disconsolateness \| dismal \| dispirited \| dispiritedness \| disquieting \| disturbing \| doleful \| dolor \| dolorous \| dour \| downcast \| downhearted \| downheartedness \| dreary \| dumpish \| dumpishness \| dumps \| engrossment \| ennui \| extremity \| fed-up \| fed-upness \| forlorn \| frowning \| funereal \| funky \| gentle melancholy \| gloom \| gloominess \| gloomy \| glowering \| glum \| glumness \| good and tired \| grief \| grim \| grimness \| grum \| grumness \| heartache \| heartbroken \| heavy heart \| heavyhearted \| heavyheartedness \| infelicity \| irked \| jaded \| jadedness \| joyless \| lachrymose \| lamentable \| life-weariness \| life-weary \| low \| lowering \| low-spirited \| lugubrious \| lugubriousness \| melancholia \| melancholic \| melancholiness \| miserable \| miserableness \| misery \| moanful \| moodiness \| moodish \| moodishness \| moody \| mopey \| moping \| mopish \| mopishness \| morose \| moroseness \| mournful \| mournfulness \| mumpish \| musing \| pensive \| pensiveness \| perturbing \| plaintive \| preoccupation \| profound thought \| prostration \| reflective \| reflectiveness \| reverie \| romantic melancholy \| rueful \| sad \| saddened \| saddening \| sadness \| satiated \| satiation \| satiety \| scowling \| sick \| sick of \| somber \| sombrous \| sorrow \| sorrowful \| sorrowfulness \| sorry \| speculativeness \| spleen \| splenetic \| study \| suicidal despair \| sulkiness \| sulky \| sullen \| sullenness \| surliness \| surly \| taedium vitae \| tedium \| thoughtful \| thoughtfulness \| tired \| tired of \| tired of living \| tired to death \| tiredness \| triste \| tristful \| tristfulness \| unhappiness \| unhappy \| wailful \| wearied \| weariful \| wearifulness \| weariness \| weary \| weary unto death \| wistful \| wistfulness \| woe \| woebegone \| woeful \| woefulness \| world-weariness \| world-weary \| wretchedness See Also \| bodily fluid \| body fluid \| brooding \| depression \| gloom \| gloominess \| heavyheartedness \| humor \| humour \| liquid body substance \| pensiveness \| sadness \| somberness \| unhappiness \| Weltschmerz \| world-weariness Melancholy In Webster's Dictionary \Mel"ancholy\, n. [OE. melancolie, F. m['e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me`las, -anos, black + ? gall, bile. See {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"ancholy\, 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.

Melancholy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Melancholy?

[n] a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
[n] a feeling of thoughtful sadness
[n] a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
[adj] characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Melancholy: black bile | melancholic | sad

Melancholy In Webster's Dictionary

\Mel"an*chol*y\, n. [OE. melancolie, F.
m['e]lancolie, L. melancholia, fr. Gr. ?; me`las, -anos,
black + ? gall, bile. See {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.

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