melancholy

Definition of melancholy in English English dictionary: Affected with great sadness or depression; Black bile, formerly thought to be one of the four "cardinal humours" of animal bodies
Melancholy, cold and dry, thick, black, and sour, is a bridle to the other two hot humours, blood and choler, preserving them in the blood, and nourishing the bones.; Great sadness or depression, especially of a thoughtful or introspective nature; {a} gloomy, dismal, low in spirits, dejected, calamitous; {n} a kind of madness, gloominess; Great sadness or depression; gloom; Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia; n depression of spirits : dejection : a pensive or moody condition : quietly serious thoughtfulness; If someone feels or looks melancholy, they feel or look very sad. It was in these hours of the late afternoon that Tom Mulligan felt most melancholy He fixed me with those luminous, empty eyes and his melancholy smile. very sad. a feeling of sadness for no particular reason; a feeling of thoughtful sadness a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth; Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal; Melancholy is an intense feeling of sadness which lasts for a long time and which strongly affects your behaviour and attitudes. I was deeply aware of his melancholy as he stood among the mourners; Producing great evil and grief; causing dejection; calamitous; afflictive; as, a melancholy event; Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess; black bile; You describe something that you see or hear as melancholy when it gives you an intense feeling of sadness. The only sounds were the distant, melancholy cries of the sheep; characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; "growing more melancholy every hour"; "her melancholic smile"; "we acquainted him with the melancholy truth"; Pensive maditation; serious thoughtfulness; Somewhat deranged in mind; having the jugment impaired; {i} sadness, dejectedness, depression, gloomy state of mind; Part of the theory of four humours, brought on by excess of gloominess; Favorable to meditation; somber; (N) -a gloomy state of mind, esp when habitual or prolonged; depression; Ill nature; a feeling of thoughtful sadness; a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy; a constitutional tendency to be gloomy and depressed; {s} gloomy, sad; causing a feeling of sadness, depressive; doleful; dolesome; dejection; melancholious; melancholia
melancholy thistle: perennial stoloniferous thistle of northern Europe with lanceolate basal leaves and usually solitary heads of reddish-purple flowers
melancholically: with great sadness, out of depression, pensively; in a melancholic manner

melancholy

Hyphenation

mel·an·cho·ly

Turkish pronunciation

melınkäli

Synonyms

wistful, blue, dejected, despondent, destroyed, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dolorous, down, down and out, downbeat, downcast, downhearted

Antonyms

cheerful, happy, joyful, cheer, happiness, joy

Pronunciation

/ˈmelənˌkälē/ /ˈmɛlənˌkɑːliː/

Etymology

[ 'me-l&n-"kä-lE ] (noun.) 14th century. From Ancient Greek μελαγχολία (melancholia, “atrabiliousness”), from μέλας (melas), μελαν- (melan-, “black, dark, murky”) + χολή (chole, “bile”). Compare the Latin ātra bīlis (“black bile”).

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