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Melancholy
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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"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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