Melancholy

Adjective

 * 1) Affected with great sadness or depression.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:sad
 * See also Thesaurus:sad

Noun

 * 1)  Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, Book I, New York 2001, p. 148:
 * Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, [...] is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.
 * 1) Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.

Adjectives for Melancholy
gentle; tranquil; appropriate; natural; funereal; vague; delicious; dull-eyed; hungry; deep; tired; congenital; silent; soft; waning; quiet; gloomy; faithful; inviting; mild-eyed; sweetest; moral; vague; forbidding; bovine; resolute; rude; touching; moody; lovely; customary; profound; savage; constitutional; young; sentimental; somber; depressing.

Verbs for Melancholy
charge with—; chase away—; conceal—; discern—; dissipate—; merge into—; sink into—; succumb to—; suffer—; —oppresses; -—perks up; —shadows; —touches.

Adverbs for Melancholy
alarmingly; unduly; incurably; stupidly; moodily; churlishly; sullenly; strangely; naturally;  inherently;   temperamentally; dangerously; doggedly; extraordinarily; inordinately; gloomily; heavily; cheerlessly; unhappily; lugubriously; mournfully; solemnly; dismally; lamentably; glumly; pensively; grimly; desolately.

Thesaurus
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, low-spirited, lowering, 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

Etymology
From μελαγχολία:, from μέλας:, μελαν-: + χολή:. Compare the Latin atra bilis:.

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Danish: melankolsk
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: μελαγχολία (melancholia)
 * Hebrew:
 * Interlingua: melancholia
 * Italian: melancolico, malinconico
 * Japanese:


 * Old English:
 * Russian:
 * Scots: dowie
 * Scottish Gaelic: mulad, èislean , dòlasachd , tùirse , dubhachas , cianalas , truime
 * Serbian: snuždenost, utučenost
 * Slovak: melanchólia
 * Spanish: melancólico, melancólica
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Volapük: glumaladäl

Noun

 * Chinese: 忧郁, 悲哀
 * Czech:
 * Danish: melankoli
 * Dutch: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Korean: 우울, 침울


 * Portuguese: melancolia
 * Romanian:, tristețe
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: dòlasachd, mulad , èislean , cianalas , tùirse , truime , dubhachas
 * Serbo-Croatian: melankolija
 * Spanish: melancolía
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,

Related terms

 * melancholic
 * sadness