Top synonyms for “melancholy”: black bile, melancholic, somber, sombre, cheerless, depressing, sad, uncheerful.
Definitions
- (noun)a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
- (noun)a feeling of thoughtful sadness
- (noun)a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
- (adjective)grave or even gloomy in character“solemn and mournful music”
- (adjective)characterized by or causing or expressing sadness“growing more melancholy every hour”
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Common synonyms for "melancholy" include black bile, melancholic, somber, sombre, cheerless, depressing. Our thesaurus lists 8 total alternatives drawn from Princeton WordNet. Click any synonym to find its rhymes.
What does "melancholy" mean?
a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
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