adj
Meaning 1
Affected with great sadness or depression.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: literary
Examples
- Melancholy people don't talk much.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: melancholic, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, comfortless, bleak, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, gayless, gray, gloomsome, grim, lack-laughter, mirthless, no joke, somber, sunless, unmerry, wintry
Antonyms: none provided