Melancholy synonyms
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Feeling or characterized by sadness or dejection.
Unlucky; unfortunate
Affected or marked by low spirits; dejected.
Lowness of spirits; depression
Causing or suggesting dejection; cheerless
joyful (antonym)
The definition of joyful is expressing delight or happiness.
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cheer (antonym)
The definition of cheer is joy and gladness, or anything that is comforting.
atrabiliar
(Obsolete) melancholy; atrabilious
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
Complete loss of hope.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
disconsolation
The state of being disconsolate; gloom.
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A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
(Obsolete) sullenness
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
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A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
(Countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
cheerful (antonym)
Willing; ready
happy (antonym)
Cheerful; willing:
cheerfulness (antonym)
happiness (antonym)
The definition of happiness is the state of joy, peace and tranquility.
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joy (antonym)
Intense and especially ecstatic or exultant happiness, or an instance of such feeling.
Dismal; bleak.
Having bad luck; unlucky
The state or characteristic of being wistful.
Having a peevish disposition; surly.
Doldrums is defined as a gloomy feeling, low spirits or a time of inactivity.
Of or having hypochondria
hypochondriacal
Suffering from hypochondria.
A liquid with an intense blue colour, added to a laundry wash to prevent yellowing of white clothes.
A period of widespread poverty and high unemployment.
Wretchedness; misery.
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Despondency is defined as a state of feeling hopeless or dejected.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
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Darkness; dimness; obscurity
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A psychiatric disorder characterized by the conviction that one is ill or soon to become ill, often accompanied by physical symptoms, when illness is neither present nor likely. &diamf3; A person with hypochondria is called a hypochondriac.
(Scottish dialectal, archaic) A hill.
A tendency to be sad, gloomy, or depressed
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
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A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
The state of being downcast or despondent.
The characteristic of being downhearted; sadness.
A state of feeling unwell or unhappy; a feeling of emotional and mental discomfort and suffering from restlessness, malaise, depression or anxiety.
A state of severe depression.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
A dull, spiritless person.
The property of being mournful.
The feeling of not being happy
Sad and dispirited.
Desolate is defined as someone or something which is unhappy or bleak.
Depressed; dejected
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Of or relating to melancholia.
black-bile
One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, supposed to cause melancholy when present in excess.
mournful (related)
wistful (related)
haunting (related)
languid (related)
sombre (related)
dreamy (related)
languor (related)
reverie (related)
foreboding (related)
grief (related)
A source or cause of deep mental anguish:
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
Lacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
Lowering the morale of; making despondent or depressive; disheartening.
Without joy; sullen, gloomy, dreary, etc.
A feeling or spell of dismally low spirits
(Idiomatic) Sad, melancholy.
down at (or in) the mouth
Find another word for melancholy. In this page you can discover 90 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for melancholy, like: depressed, unhappy, dispirited, dejection, saddening, disconsolate, joyful, sad, cheer, atrabiliar and cheerless.