See melancholy in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits:
blues, dejection, depression, despondence, despondency, doldrums, dolefulness, downheartedness, dumps, dysphoria, funk, gloom, glumness, heavy-heartedness, mope (used in plural), mournfulness, sadness, unhappiness. See feelings, happy
adjective
In low spirits:
blue, dejected, depressed, desolate, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, dull, dysphoric, gloomy, heavy-hearted, low, melancholic, sad, spiritless, tristful, unhappy, wistful. Idiom: down at (or in) the mouth. See happyTending to cause sadness or low spirits:
blue, cheerless, depressing, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, joyless, sad. See happy
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