melancholy - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy

Synonyms

• black bile
• melancholy

More generic

• bodily fluid
• body fluid
• humor
• humour
• liquid body substance

Noun

a feeling of thoughtful sadness

Synonyms

• melancholy

More generic

• sadness
• unhappiness

More specific

• Weltschmerz
• brooding
• gloom
• gloominess
• heavyheartedness
• pensiveness
• somberness
• sombreness
• world-weariness

Noun

a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed

Synonyms

• melancholy

More generic

• depression

Adjective

grave or even gloomy in character

Synonyms

• melancholy
• somber
• sombre

Related

• cheerless
• depressing
• uncheerful

Adjective

characterized by or causing or expressing sadness

Synonyms

• melancholic
• melancholy

Related

• sad

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