melancholy in English

adjective

1

having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive.

she felt a little melancholy

synonyms: sad, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, forlorn, despondent, dejected, depressed, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, miserable, wretched, dismal, morose, woeful, woebegone, doleful, joyless, heavy-hearted, down in the dumps, down in/at the mouth, blue, atrabilious

adjective

sad, sorrowful, unhappy, desolate, mournful, lugubrious, gloomy, forlorn, despondent, dejected, depressed, downhearted, downcast, disconsolate, glum, miserable, wretched, dismal, morose, woeful, woebegone, doleful, joyless, heavy-hearted, down in the dumps, down in/at the mouth, blue, atrabilious
melancholic
somber, sombre

noun

sadness, black bile
sadness, sorrow, unhappiness, woe, desolation, melancholia, dejection, depression, despondency, cafard, gloom, gloominess, misery, the dumps, the blues
black bile

Use "melancholy" in a sentence

1. Why this melancholy?

2. I've always been melancholy.

3. Atrabilious: Inclined to melancholy

4. The melancholy my heart begets

5. MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES

6. He only suffered a deep melancholy.

7. A funeral is a melancholy occasion.

8. Terrors and Affrights, Causes of Melancholy

9. It suited Charles' melancholy mood well.

10. Atrabilious (Adjective) characterized by melancholy

11. The melancholy song died away.

12. He sank into deep melancholy.

13. He has a melancholy look.

14. Nicola Matteis: False Consonances of Melancholy

15. 3 Accidie; 4 Black Bile and Melancholia; 5 Melancholia in Men and Women; 6 Learned People and Melancholy; 7 Melancholia, Witches, and Deceiving Demons; 8 Melancholy Nuns; 9 Melancholy; 10 Melancholic States; 11 The Melancholy Character; 12 How to Help Melancholicks; 13 The Spleen; 14 The Chronic Disease of Melancholy; 15 Werther’s Death

16. A mood of melancholy descended on us.

17. Blues definition is - low spirits : melancholy

18. Terrors and Affrights, Causes of Melancholy

19. Nothing could conjure away his melancholy.

20. Melancholy runs through all her stories.

21. The music suited her melancholy mood.

22. Atrabilious Of a peevish or melancholy disposition

23. She smiled a knowing, somewhat melancholy smile.

24. Your pleasing burden has made you melancholy.

25. A deep melancholy runs through her poetry.

26. The New Anatomy of Melancholy — Terrors and Affrights

27. Melancholy and mistrust of men hold her back.

28. Melancholy is the preponderant mood of the poem.

29. Her melancholy eyes avidly scanned his smiling face.

30. Jake was fourteen and suffering from adolescent melancholy.

31. Are you in character somber, melancholy, or neglectful?

32. His mood inclined to melancholy and retrospection.

33. He felt melancholy after he failed the exam.

34. Atrabilious is another word for sad or melancholy

35. A feeling of melancholy runs through his prose.

36. Dantes listened to these melancholy tidings with outward calmness.

37. It was a disheartening circumstance, but a melancholy fact.

38. 20 Jake was fourteen and suffering from adolescent melancholy.

39. Eschewing self-centered woe and melancholy-for-the-sake-of-melancholy, happiness becomes the brashest, boldest, and Ballsiest move—and the sought-after answer.

40. Atrabilious (adj.) "affected by melancholy," 1650s, from Latin atra bilis, translating Greek melankholia "black bile" (see melancholy; also compare bile)

41. Borage is also used as herbal medicine to dispel melancholy.

42. What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 

43. The setting sun lent an air of melancholy to the scene.

44. .. Melancholy that's followed me like a black dog all my life...

45. All at once he fell into a state of profound melancholy.

46. The plaintive droning of a cicada in cold weather sounds melancholy.

47. Seam combine melancholy, rage and pure plaintive yearning to devastating effect.

48. Die "False Consonances of Melancholy" sind wundervoll in dieser Einspielung

49. He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile.

50. Coryn was eliminated that episode for being too melancholy to the judges