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melancholy

UK
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɒ.li/
US
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɑː.li/

Translations

melancholynoun
melancholies
pl
UK
/ˈmel.ənˌkɒl.i/
US
/ˈmɛl.ənˌkɑː.li/
Synonyms
sadness
sorrow
gloom
gloominess
despondency
dejection
dolefulness
wistfulness
melancholia
depression
sorrowfulness
moroseness
downheartedness
melancholyadjective
more melancholy
Comp.
most melancholy
Super.
UK
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɒ.li/
US
/ˈmɛl.ən.kɑː.li/
The artist's work has a melancholy tone.
Работы художника имеют меланхоличный тон.
The movie had a melancholy atmosphere.
Фильм имел унылую атмосферу.
She had a melancholy expression on her face.
У нее было грустное выражение лица.
Synonyms
sorrowful
gloomy
dejected
dismal
mournful
woeful
despondent
downcast
Antonyms
cheerful
happy
joyful
elated

Definitions

melancholynoun
A deep, pensive, and long-lasting sadness.
A sense of melancholy settled over them after the news.
A reflective or gloomy mood.
He spoke in a quiet melancholy, recalling the past.
(archaic, historical) Black bile, thought in ancient and medieval medicine to cause depression or sadness.
Physicians of the Renaissance attributed his sorrow to an imbalance of melancholy in his body.
melancholyadjective
Having a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause.
She had a melancholy expression on her face as she gazed out the window.
Causing or expressing sadness or sorrow.
A melancholy melody drifted through the empty hall.
(archaic, medicine) Relating to or caused by black bile, one of the four bodily humours once believed to influence temperament.
In medieval texts, a melancholy temperament was linked to an excess of cold, dry black bile.
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