Definition of melancholy Melancholy

/mɛˈlʌnkɑˌli/ - [melunkalee] - mel•an•chol•y

We found 18 definitions of melancholy from 5 different sources.

What does melancholy mean?

Noun Plural: melancholies
melancholy - a feeling of thoughtful sadness
		unhappiness, sadness state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief
		gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness a feeling of melancholy apprehension
		heavyheartedness a feeling of dispirited melancholy
		brooding, pensiveness sitting on eggs so as to hatch them by the warmth of the body
melancholy - a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed
melancholy - a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
		black bile
Adjective
melancholy - characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"
		melancholic
		sad experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti
melancholy - grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"
		somber, sombre
		cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

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melancholy (Noun)
black Black bile , formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies.
melancholy (Noun)
Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature.
melancholy (Adjective)
Affected with great sadness or depression.

melancholy (n.)
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
melancholy (n.)
Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.
melancholy (n.)
Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness.
melancholy (n.)
Ill nature.
melancholy (a.)
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
melancholy (a.)
Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event.
melancholy (a.)
Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired.
melancholy (a.)
Favorable to meditation; somber.